LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Young Cuckoo with Egg Placed on 



Back Ready to Rise . . frontispiece 



Initial — Cuculus canorus. 



Reproduction of Mrs. Blackburn's Draw- 

 ing OF Young Cuckoo Throwing out 

 Young Nestlings . . .13 



From Mr. J. Peat-Millar's Photograph of 

 Young Cuckoo in First Stage of Rising 

 with Young Meadow-pipit on Back . 28 



Ditto, Ditto, Five Seconds Afterwards . 28 



Young Cuckoo Lying Amicably with other 



Young Bird . . . .45 



Tailpiece — Other View of Cuculus canorus 77 



Cuckoos Destroying Young Birds, that 

 Old Ones may Build again and give 

 chance for their Eggs . . 137 



Young Cuckoo in Meadow-pipit's Nest . 183 



Wagtail Feeding Young Cuckoo . . 192 



The Yellow-billed Cuckoo . . . 233 



Cow-birds on Cows' Backs after Insects 237 



The American Cow-bird . . . 250 



