UST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Long-Tailed Field Mouse 

 Lono-Eared Bats Asleep .... 

 Long-Eared Bats Awake .... 

 Pipistrelle about to take Flight . 

 Thirteen Long-Eared Bats 

 Bank Voles — 'Stolen Goods' . 

 Bank Voles — ' On the Alert ' 

 Young Song Thrush — ' Waiting ' 

 Young Song Thrush — 'Is that Mother 



Coming .^ ' . 

 Blackbird on Her Nest .... 

 The Pigmy or Lesser Shrew 

 The Water Shrew ..... 

 A Toad Climbing ..... 

 The Long-Tailed Field Mouse (2 Photographs) 

 The Mole (2 Photographs) 

 'Whiskers' and Old Puss 

 An Old English Black Rat Busy Eating 

 A Common Brown Rat with a Hen's Egg 

 The Great Tit Carrying Home Food for 



its Young ... . . 



A Hedgehog Family — the Mother Rolled Up 

 A Hedgehog Family — the Old Hedgehog 



Unrolls 



The Harmless Grass Snake 



The Innocent Bmndworm .... 



The Meadow Vole or Short-Tailed Field 



Mouse (3 Photographs) 



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