LIST OF PLATES



*Giant Pitta ........ to face p. 1


Flightless Cormorant from the Galapagos Islands . „ 33


*Macklot’s Pitta ......... 61


Young Lesser Black-baeked Gulls . . . „ 93


Rearing Great Bustards in Spain . . . ,, 106


*Bourke’s Grass Parrakeet ....... 113


*Fire-tailed Finch ........ 141


Humming Birds Feeding from Bottles of Syrup . . „ 173


Black-winged Plover . . . . . . „ 194


Mr. Gerard Gurney’s Tropical Aviary . . . „ 205


Eared-Pheasants at Liberty in a Garden „ 220


Brown or Manchurian Eared-Pheasant „ 223


Blue Eared-Pheasants ....... 223


^Masked Grassfinch . . . . . . „ 337


Spurwing Goose with Her Brood of Ten „ 362


The Tui.. . . 369


The late Viscount Grey of Falloden . . . „ 393


*Red-eared Firetailed Finch . . . . „ 401


The New Zealand Pigeon . . . . . „ 407


* Humming Birds . . . . . . ,, 431


Andean Goslings Reared at Gooilust, Holland . . „ 434


Typical New Zealand Bush : Little Barrier Island . „ 439



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