LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
Climbing by Rope Ladder with Detachable Wooden Rungs 
Frontispiece 
FACING PAGK 
Haunt of the Rufous Bristle-bird . . . . • IS 
Bald Coot's Nest in Sedge, Connewarre . . . .28 
Nest of Black-throated Grebe, Lake Angahook, Airey's 
Inlet ......... 34 
Photo by H. Hurst, Esq. 
Aboriginal Kitchen-midden, Bream Creek : Dotterel's 
Nest in Foreground ...... 50 
The Black Rocks (Basaltic Flow), near Bream Creek . 70 
Nest of Red-capped Dotterel amid Shell-remains of Abori- 
ginal Feasts 82 
Young Hooded Dotterel, Coast near Torquay ... 84 
Curlew's Nest, Torquay Road 103 
Young Swamp-hawks in Nest, Sparrovale .... 147 
Photo by A. Purnell, Esq. 
Goshawk's Nest and Eggs, Jan Juc 151 
Eagle's Nest in Ironbark, Bull's Well .... 153 
Falcon's Cliff, showing Landslip at Foot, and Rope- 
climber on Cliff-face ...... 160 
Young Brown Hawk : a Study in Resentment . . 162 
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