LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Blackbird, Female, admiring her single giant chick [29]
Blackbird’s Nest [27]
Blackcap Warbler, Female, feeding young [185]
Blackcap Warbler’s Nest and Eggs [183]
Bullfinch, Female, on the Nest [191]
Bullfinch’s Nest and Eggs [189]
Chaffinch on the Nest [227]
Chaffinches, Sparrows, and Starling feeding in Winter [229]
Chaffinches, Young [231]
Chiffchaff and Nest [121]
Chiffchaff’s Nest and Eggs [122]
“Come and hear the Cuckoo sing” [6]
Cuckoo, Adult [5]
Cuckoo, Young, and his Tree Pipit foster-mother [9]
Cuckoo, Young, asking for food [13]
Cuckoo, Young, in Meadow Pipit’s Nest, Bird’sown eggs thrown out on to edge of structure [3]
Cuckoo, Young, waiting for its foster-mother withfood [7]
Cuckoo’s Egg in Meadow Pipit’s Nest [3]
Dartford Warbler [105]
Dipper and Nest [116]
Garden Warbler on Nest [165]
Garden Warbler’s Nest and Eggs [166]
Golden-Crested Wren at Nest [250]
Goldfinch’s Nest and Eggs [179]
Grasshopper Warbler on Nest [68]
Greenfinch, Male, in a Garden in Winter [99]
Greenfinch’s Nest and Eggs [101]
Hedge Sparrow and Young [95]
Hedge Sparrow’s Nest and Eggs [94]
Lesser Whitethroat feeding young [138]
Lesser Whitethroat’s Nest and Eggs [137]
Lesser Redpole’s Nest and Eggs [151]
Linnet bringing food for young [241]
Linnet’s Nest and Eggs [239]
Marsh Warbler on the Nest [170]
Meadow Pipit, Adult [84]
Meadow Pipit’s Nest and Eggs [85]
Meadow Pipit, Young, sheltering behind a stone [83]
Missel Thrush at Nest [112]
Missel Thrushes, Newly-fledged [110]
Nightingale ([Frontispiece])
Nightingale’s Nest and Eggs [133]
Pied Flycatcher, Male, outside nesting hole [234]
Redstart, Female, with food for chicks [78]
Redstart, Male, with food for young [79]
Redstart’s Nest and Eggs beneath a stone on theground [80]
Reed Bunting, Female, and Young [175]
Reed Warbler, Young [156]
Reed Warblers at Home [155]
Reed Warbler’s Nest and Eggs [154]
Ring Ouzel, Female, covering young in nest during a shower of rain [46]
Ring Ouzel’s Nest [45]
Robin, Cock, bringing food for his chicks [19]
Robin, Female, bringing food to her young [23]
Robin, Young, in its first coat of feathers [21]
Robin’s Nest [17]
Rock Pipit’s Nest and Eggs [161]
Sedge Warbler on Nest [145]
Sedge Warbler’s Nest with Cuckoo’s Egg in it [145]
Siskin’s Nest and Eggs [142]
Skylark, Mother, feeding chicks [74]
Skylark’s Nest and Eggs [72]
Song Thrush at Nest [206]
Song Thrushes, Young, waiting for mother [211]
Song Thrush’s Nest and Eggs [208]
Starling, Adult, in Winter [223]
Starling in its first coat of feathers [221]
Stonechat’s Nest and Eggs [199]
Swallow, Newly-fledged [246]
Swallows, Young, on telegraph wires [245]
Tree Pipit about to alight on young Cuckoo’s backwith food [11]
Tree Pipit coming with food for young Cuckoo [10]
Tree Pipit feeding young Cuckoo whilst standingon his shoulders [14]
Tree Pipit, Female, about to enter nest [51]
Tree Pipit stretching herself after having fed youngCuckoo [2]
Tree Pipit’s Nest and Eggs [49]
Twite on Nest in Honeysuckle tied against a storm-sweptHebridean garden wall [35]
Twite, Young, just fledged [34]
Twite’s Nest and Eggs [33]
Wheatear, Male, bringing food for young [196]
Wheatears, Young, waiting for food [197]
Wheatear’s Nest and Eggs beneath a stone [195]
Whinchat’s Nest and Eggs [203]
Whitethroat on Nest [128]
Whitethroat’s Nest and Eggs [127]
Willow Wren bringing food to young in nest [91]
Willow Wren’s Nest and Eggs [88]
Willow Wrens, Young [89]
Woodlark, Newly fledged [56]
Woodlark’s Nest and Eggs [55]
Wood Wren, Female, about to enter nest [40]
Wood Wren’s Nest and Eggs [39]
Wren about to enter Nest with food for chicks [62]
Wren’s Nest amongst Ivy growing on the trunk ofa tree [60]
Yellow Hammer on Nest [215]
Yellow Hammer’s Nest and Eggs [217]