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| SOMETHING ABOUT BATS |
| Natterer's Bat | [17] |
| Lesser Horseshoe Bat | [19] |
| The Noctule | [20] |
| The Noctule | [21] |
| Lesser Horseshoe Bat going to sleep | [22] |
| The Greater Horseshoe | [23] |
| Long-eared Bat | [24] |
| The Greater Horseshoe Bat hanging head downwards | [25] |
| The Pipistrelle | [27] |
| SOMETHING ABOUT TADOLES |
| Toad's Spawn | [29] |
| Frog's Spawn floating on the water | [31] |
| Frog's Spawn Quite Fresh | [33] |
| Frog's Spawn beginning to Grow | [34] |
| Frog's Spawn showing Young Tadpoles, &c. | [35] |
| Tadpoles getting like Frogs | [36] |
| Tadpoles full grown | [39] |
| A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO |
| Passable | [43] |
| His Little Eyes were Starting from their Sockets | [47] |
| The Water Rat | [48] |
| The Salamander | [51] |
| The Natterjack | [52] |
| Have you Seen this Trick before | [53] |
| The French Frog | [57] |
| "I see a Natterjack" | [58] |
| "Fetch him," thundered the King Toad | [59] |
| Five Times He Tried | [65] |
| The Shrew Mouse | [66] |
| He Bristled with Apologies | [67] |
| The Green Toad | [69] |
| His Inside was Red Hot | [70] |
| He Lay as He had Fallen | [71] |
| "Ducks," whispered Bombinatrix | [73] |
| ANIMALS' NESTS |
| Four Moles' Nests Together | [77] |
| The Squirrel | [79] |
| The Harvest Mouse Nest | [81] |
| The Dormouse | [83] |
| A Dormouse's Nursery Nest | [85] |
| The Harvest Mouse | [86] |
| SOMETHING ABOUT BEETLES |
| The Stag-Beetle | [91] |
| The Stag-Beetle that I ran over | [93] |
| The Female Stag-Beetle | [95] |
| The Great Water Beetle | [96] |
| The Musk Beetle | [97] |
| The Cockchafer | [98] |
| The Churchyard Beetle | [99] |
| BUNNY RABBIT |
| Landed on his Back six feet below | [103] |
| It wasn't Mother after all | [105] |
| He Combed his Ears Out | [106] |
| He Watched and Heard the Awakening of the Wood | [108] |
| Berus the Adder | [110] |
| Lay full length, eyes closed | [113] |
| Bunny Rabbit Watched him out of Sight | [116] |
| A BUTTERFLY PAINT-BOX |
| The Brimstone Butterfly | [118] |
| The Red Admiral | [119] |
| The Purple Emperor | [120] |
| The Clifden Blue | [121] |
| The Swallow Tail Butterfly | [122] |
| The Black Pepper Moth | [123] |
| The Silver-washed Fritillary | [124] |
| TWO WONDERFUL WASPS |
| Spinipes' burrow opened up | [128] |
| Spinipes Bringing up a Grub | [129] |
| Spinipes Grub Feeding | [131] |
| Cocoon which Spinipes' Grubs make | [132] |
| The Little Beetle that Caterpillars turn into | [133] |
| Before and After the Thunderstorm | [135] |
| Crabro | [136] |
| Crabro Looking out of her hole | [137] |
| How the Cocoons Looked | [138] |
| One of the Crabro's Stores of Blue-Bottles | [139] |
| What the piece of Elm-bough looked like | [140] |
| One of the Cocoons of Crabro in Elm-bough | [141] |
| SPINIPES, THE SAND-WASP |
| The Sand Cliff splits the Old Gravel-Pit in two | [144] |
| First the Wild Bees, Red King, Black Queen | [146] |
| Down Dropped a Red King | [147] |
| "In Sand, Ma'am, in Sand" | [148] |
| "Well, call me when it comes" | [149] |
| Spinipes commenced to Dig in Earnest | [151] |
| "Good Hunting, Sister!" said the Ophion Fly | [153] |
| The Rose Chafer | [155] |
| Out flew the Bees | [157] |
| Hour after Hour she Toiled | [158] |
| The Lowest Chamber of the Shaft now held a precious thing | [159] |
| A Flabby, Green, Blackheaded Grub | [160] |
| Twelve Grubs in all she brought | [163] |
| She Sank five other Curving Shafts | [167] |
| PICTURES ON BUTTER-FLIES' WINGS |
| The Magpie Moth | [171] |
| The Emperor Moth | [173] |
| The Elephant Hawk Moth's Caterpillar | [174] |
| The Elephant Hawk Moth showing his Trunk | [175] |
| The Peacock Butterfly | [176] |
| The Mother Shipton Moth | [177] |
| A VERY WEE BEASTIE AND A VERY BIG ONE |
| The Common Shrewmouse | [181] |
| The Water Shrewmouse | [183] |
| The Pygmy Shrewmouse | [184] |
| How the Pygmy Coils Himself Up to Sleep | [185] |
| IN WEASEL WOOD |
| Again the Fox Cub was Puzzled | [188] |
| He Sank from his Hindquarters forward | [191] |
| The Stoat Tiptoed Towards Him | [193] |
| "My Plumed Tail! you wait till Squirrel grows" | [195] |
| Marten has seen you | [197] |
| "Perhaps you will be good enough to get higher up the tree" | [201] |
| It was another Badger | [207] |
| She came out full charge | [209] |
| And in due course of time, his wife | [210] |
| SHEEP IN WOLVES' CLOTHING |
| The Lobster Moth Caterpillar | [213] |
| The Spider on the Bramble Blossom | [217] |
| The Dragon in the Water-weed | [219] |
| The Lobster Moth Caterpillar, Angry | [220] |
| The Ichneumon Fly | [221] |
| The Puss Moth Caterpillar | [223] |
| The Giant Wood Wasp | [225] |
| THE BEASTIES' BEDTIME |
| The Queen Wasp in her Winter Sleep | [227] |
| Bill the Lizard | [228] |
| Toadums | [229] |
| Round Eye the Dormouse | [230] |
| Dormouse in his Winter Sleep | [231] |
| Prickles the Hedge Pig | [233] |
| The Hedge Pig in his Winter Sleep | [234] |
| Lesser Horseshoe Bat Asleep | [235] |
| THE BLUNDERS OF BARTIMÆUS |
| Bartimæus | [237] |
| He Headed Straight for the Water | [239] |
| The Bank Rose Steeply Over Him | [241] |
| Only one grass-blade stirred, but Tatters saw it | [246] |
| The Harvest Mouse stood up full length | [251] |
| The Harvest Mouse drew herself up indignant | [253] |
| "Weasels!" said the Meadow Mouse | [254] |
| "Don't rush!" the Pygmy screamed behind | [257] |
| His fortress, his own fortress had been breached | [258] |
| SOMETHING ABOUT A CHAMÆLEON |
| You can see his eye looking back over his shoulder | [263] |
| You can see his hands and feet | [265] |
| The Chamæleon | [267] |
| THE TRAIL OF NIMBLE BEASTS |
| Nuts Gnawed by Mice | [269] |
| The Weasel's Trail | [271] |
| Where the Weasel met the Mice | [272] |
| Where the Weasel met the Rook | [274] |
| Two Mouse Trails | [275] |
| The Fox's Footprints | [276] |
| THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER'S BAND |
| She Never went to Sleep at all | [281] |
| The Cricket was Sitting on the Hearthstone | [283] |
| The pair of them dropped | [284] |
| "I beg your pardon," said the Grasshopper's Wife | [288] |
| The Mole Cricket | [291] |
| The Field Cricket | [292] |
| The Wood Cricket | [293] |
| The First Note sent the Grasshopper's Wife's hind legs straight up | [295] |
| He had backed out of his hole | [296] |
| The Grasshopper's Wife reared herself up | [297] |
| THE PYGMY SHREW |
| The Woodmouse First | [303] |
| He took the Right-hand Surface run | [305] |
| He could now see and hear as well | [306] |
| His rival feinting, flicked his tail | [308] |
| The Grey Shrew Leant against the Trunk | [309] |
| With Tangled Tails and Rounded Straining Bodies | [310] |
| There they lay head to tail | [311] |
| The Field Voles | [312] |
| The Bat came to a halt and stared | [313] |
| The Pygmy climbed two inches up | [314] |
| Now one was on his back, now the other | [315] |
| The Mole plunged into the air | [317] |