CONTENTS. 



2yage. 



Introduction 9 



Part L— Wild Bird Protection . 13 



Part II. — Medisuval Bird Laws . . 24 



Part III. — Bird Nesting Boxes, with la Figures 31 



Part IV. — Orders applying to Counties, etc., 



under Wild Birds Protection Acts 63 



Full-Page Collotype Illustrations. 



Plate i. — Where the Bullfinch Builds (/r&ntispiece). 



Plate ii. — The Nuthatch's Nesting Box . 41 



Plate iii. — The Wren's Winter Shelter . . 47 



Plate iv. — The Spotted Flycatcher's Nesting 



Shelf 48 



Plate v.; — The Redstart's Home in Dead Birch 



IVee Stump . . . . 51 



Plate vi. — The Great Tit's favourite Nesting 



Hole in Old Apple Tree . 52 



Plate vii.— The Starling's Box ... 54 



Plate viii.— The Blue Tit's Pump ... 56 



Plate ix. — Model Lodging Houses for Tits . 60 



(All from Photographs taken by Mr. Jacob Lowndes, 

 Cheadle, Staffordshire. ) 



