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Cover for Birds and their nests
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Back in 2014, David Slinn helped me with first-hand information on the two series in the comic, Swift which Raymond Sheppard illustrated. The first I presented was "Animals and their young", now it's time for "Birds and their nests".
I've scanned the following from this reprint title from 1962 by Longacre Press. It matches the Animals book in size and colour but interestingly the title of the series is different
Here's the index to show you what appears and just like the previous book there are one or two images missed out - for what reason, we have no idea. Each image appeared on the right hand page with a description of the bird on the left hand page - thus the cover image's description appears at the back - here.
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Birds and their nests p.80
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Below are the issue dates for which Sheppard images appeared in the original comic with the 'missing' image highlighted which you'll find at the end :
4 Jan 1958 | The Rook |
11 Jan 1958 | The Song Thrush |
18 Jan 1958 | The Mute Swan |
25 Jan 1958 | The Blue Tit |
1 Feb 1958 | The Lapwing |
8 Feb 1958 | The Green Woodpecker |
15 Feb 1958 | The Magpie |
22 Feb 1958 | The Wren |
1 Mar 1958 | The Heron |
8 Mar 1958 | The Blackbird |
15 Mar 1958 | The Kestrel |
22 Mar 1958 | The Chaffinch |
29 Mar 1958 | The Jay |
5 Apr 1958 | Long-tailed Tit |
12 Apr 1958 | The Kingfisher |
19 Apr 1958 | The Golden Eagle |
26 Apr 1958 | The Black-headed Gull |
3 May 1958 | The Great Crested Grebe |
10 May 1958 | The Reed Warbler |
17 May 1958 | The Barn Owl |
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p.5 Barn Owl
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p.7 Blackbird
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To illustrate how these appeared with some text, here's the example from Swift 8 March 1958
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Swift 8 March 1958 |
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p.9 Black-headed gull
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p.11 Chaffinch
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p.27 Golden Eagle
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p.33 Great Crested Grebe
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p.35 Green Woodpecker
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p.37 Heron
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p.39 Jay
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Part Two to follow soon
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