‘British Birds: nests and eggs I have found’

 

This hand-written and illustrated 100 page book, written in 1896, is based solely on Collingwood’s own observations. Most are around Westgate, but some from the Surrey heaths near Elstead where his uncle Charles lived.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         A page from the book