LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Capeicaillie Blackcock and Greyhen Foot of Blackcock Grouse Ptarmigan (in winter) Pheasant . Partridge . Red-legged Partridge Quail Pallas's Sand-Grouse . Wood -Pigeon or Ring- Dove Stock-Dove Blue-Rock or Rock-Dove Turtle-Dove Water- Rail Corn-Crake or Land-Rail Little Crake Baillon's Crake . Spotted Crake . Moor-Hen or Water-Hen Coot Crane Bustard Head and neck of Cock Bustard Little Bustard . Stone-Curlew or Thick-Kni Cream-coloured Courser Pratincole Turnstone Plover (winter) . Plover (cock in summer) Grey Plover (winter) . Grey Plover (summer) Lapwing or Peewit Ringed Plover . Little Ringed and Ringed 1 'lover Little Ringed Plover . Kentish Plover . Caspian Sand- Plover . Dotterel . Sea-Pie or Oyster-Catcher Stilt Avocet PACE PAGE I Curlew ..... 84 5 Whimljrcl .... . 86 6 Black-tailed Godwit . 88 8 Bar-tailed Godwit (summer) • 90 lO Bar-tailed Godwit (winter) . 91 12 Red-breasted Ciodwit • 92 14 Sandpiper or Summer Snipe ■ 93 17 Spotted Sandpiper • 94 19 Green Sandpiper • 95 21 Solitary .Sandpiper . 96 23 Feathers of Sandpipers ■ 97 26 Wood-Sandpiper • 98 28 Redshank .... 99 30 Spotted Redshank . lOI 31 Lesser Yellowshank . 102 34 Greater Yellowshank 102 36 Greenshank .... 104 37 Ruff (spring) .... ic6 39 Ruff (winter) .... 108 40 Buff- breasted .Sandpiper 109 43 Sanderlings .... 1 10 45 Stint 113 47 Temniinck's Stint 115 48 -Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 117 49 Knot ..... 119 51 Purple Sandpiper 121 55 Curlew-Sandpiper 123 57 Dunlin (summer) 124 59 Dunlin (winter) 126 62 Broad-billed Sandpiper 127 63 Red-necked Phalarope (female) . 128 65 Grey Phalarope 130 66 Woodcock .... 132 67 Head of Woodcock . 135 70 Snipe ...... 136 71 Tail of Snipe .... 138 72 Great Snipe (male) . . . . 139 73 Jack-Snipe (male) 140 74 Common Gull . . . . . 142 75 Herring-Gulls (adult and immature) 145 78 Greater White-winged Gull 147 80 Iceland Gull . . . . . 150 82 Great Black-backed Gull 151
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