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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’s
own eggs thrown out on to edge of structure 3
Cuckoo, Young, waiting for its foster-mother with
food 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 the
ground 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 back
with food 11
Tree Pipit coming with food for young Cuckoo 10
Tree Pipit feeding young Cuckoo whilst standing
on his shoulders 14
Tree Pipit, Female, about to enter nest 51
Tree Pipit stretching herself after having fed young
Cuckoo 2
Tree Pipit’s Nest and Eggs 49
Twite on Nest in Honeysuckle tied against a storm-swept
Hebridean 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 of
a tree 60
Yellow Hammer on Nest 215
Yellow Hammer’s Nest and Eggs 217