LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.PAGEBlackbird, Female, admiring her single giant chick29Blackbird’s Nest27Blackcap Warbler, Female, feeding young185Blackcap Warbler’s Nest and Eggs183Bullfinch, Female, on the Nest191Bullfinch’s Nest and Eggs189Chaffinch on the Nest227Chaffinches, Sparrows, and Starling feeding in Winter229Chaffinches, Young231Chiffchaff and Nest121Chiffchaff’s Nest and Eggs122“Come and hear the Cuckoo sing”6Cuckoo, Adult5Cuckoo, Young, and his Tree Pipit foster-mother9Cuckoo, Young, asking for food13Cuckoo, Young, in Meadow Pipit’s Nest, Bird’s own eggs thrown out on to edge of structure3Cuckoo, Young, waiting for its foster-mother with food7Cuckoo’s Egg in Meadow Pipit’s Nest3Dartford Warbler105Dipper and Nest116Garden Warbler on Nest165Garden Warbler’s Nest and Eggs166Golden-Crested Wren at Nest250Goldfinch’s Nest and Eggs179Grasshopper Warbler on Nest68Greenfinch, Male, in a Garden in Winter99Greenfinch’s Nest and Eggs101Hedge Sparrow and Young95Hedge Sparrow’s Nest and Eggs94Lesser Whitethroat feeding young138Lesser Whitethroat’s Nest and Eggs137Lesser Redpole’s Nest and Eggs151Linnet bringing food for young241Linnet’s Nest and Eggs239Marsh Warbler on the Nest170Meadow Pipit, Adult84Meadow Pipit’s Nest and Eggs85Meadow Pipit, Young, sheltering behind a stone83Missel Thrush at Nest112Missel Thrushes, Newly-fledged110Nightingale (Frontispiece)Nightingale’s Nest and Eggs133Pied Flycatcher, Male, outside nesting hole234Redstart, Female, with food for chicks78Redstart, Male, with food for young79Redstart’s Nest and Eggs beneath a stone on the ground80Reed Bunting, Female, and Young175Reed Warbler, Young156Reed Warblers at Home155Reed Warbler’s Nest and Eggs154Ring Ouzel, Female, covering young in nest during a shower of rain46Ring Ouzel’s Nest45Robin, Cock, bringing food for his chicks19Robin, Female, bringing food to her young23Robin, Young, in its first coat of feathers21Robin’s Nest17Rock Pipit’s Nest and Eggs161Sedge Warbler on Nest145Sedge Warbler’s Nest with Cuckoo’s Egg in it145Siskin’s Nest and Eggs142Skylark, Mother, feeding chicks74Skylark’s Nest and Eggs72Song Thrush at Nest206Song Thrushes, Young, waiting for mother211Song Thrush’s Nest and Eggs208Starling, Adult, in Winter223Starling in its first coat of feathers221Stonechat’s Nest and Eggs199Swallow, Newly-fledged246Swallows, Young, on telegraph wires245Tree Pipit about to alight on young Cuckoo’s back with food11Tree Pipit coming with food for young Cuckoo10Tree Pipit feeding young Cuckoo whilst standing on his shoulders14Tree Pipit, Female, about to enter nest51Tree Pipit stretching herself after having fed young Cuckoo2Tree Pipit’s Nest and Eggs49Twite on Nest in Honeysuckle tied against a storm-swept Hebridean garden wall35Twite, Young, just fledged34Twite’s Nest and Eggs33Wheatear, Male, bringing food for young196Wheatears, Young, waiting for food197Wheatear’s Nest and Eggs beneath a stone195Whinchat’s Nest and Eggs203Whitethroat on Nest128Whitethroat’s Nest and Eggs127Willow Wren bringing food to young in nest91Willow Wren’s Nest and Eggs88Willow Wrens, Young89Woodlark, Newly fledged56Woodlark’s Nest and Eggs55Wood Wren, Female, about to enter nest40Wood Wren’s Nest and Eggs39Wren about to enter Nest with food for chicks62Wren’s Nest amongst Ivy growing on the trunk of a tree60Yellow Hammer on Nest215Yellow Hammer’s Nest and Eggs217