Plate I. Raven, Corvus corax, at nest in Rowan tree, with young
Plate I. Raven, Corvus corax, at nest in Rowan tree, with young
Plate II a. Believer Tor, seen over one of Dartmoor’s stone walls
b. Old plough headlands and furrows, near Grimspound
Plate III a. Long-tailed Field Mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus
b. Bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus
Plate IV a. Hay Tor
b. Fernworthy Reservoir and plantations
Plate V. Hound Tor rocks, showing jointing and weathering
Plate VI. Old tin workings, West Webburn valley
Plate VII a. The Great Ammil of 1947
b. Clapper bridge over the Cowsic, above Two Bridges
Plate VIII a. View looking southwards over Moretonhampstead. The passing rainstorm brings the 800-foot platform into prominence
b. Terraced hillside in the Challacombe valley
Plate IX a. Highland cattle on Taw Marsh. Note the hummocks left by old tin streamers, right middle ground
b. Wheatear carrying leather-jacket (Tipulid grub)
Plate X. Forestry Commission plantation. Trees and cover growing vigorously
Plate XI. Weasel, Mustela nivalis
Plate XII a. Skylark, Alauda arvensis, at nest
b. Meadow Pipit, Anthus pratensis, at nest among heather and bilberry
Plate XIII Stonechat, Saxiola torquatca. Left, Cock and Right Hen
Plate XIV a. Wistman’s Wood: an engraving from Carrington’s Dartmoor: a Descriptive Poem (1826)
b. Cotton Grass, Eriophorum spp., on the blanket bog
Plate XV. WISTMAN’S WOOD: (above) panoramic view, (below) interior, showing the gnarled and stunted trees, the lush flora of epiphytic mosses and ferns, and a ground cover of Woodrush, Luzula sylvatica
Plate XVI. Epiphytic vegetation on one of the Wistman’s Wood oaks (left) contrasted with the much more open character of Black Tor BearC (right) (Photograph! by E. hi. Ware)
Plate XVII. Wood Warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix, at nest
Plate XVIII a. Montagu’s Harrier, Circus pygargus, hen and young
b. Grey Wagtail, Motacilla cinerea; a characteristic view by the waterside
Plate XIX. Coppicing and barking for tanning, Teign Valley. The slender growth of the regularly coppiced oaks is very clear
Plate XX a. Dipper, Cinclus cinclus, with a beakful
b. Otter, Lutra?? lutra. Oliver Pi????
Plate XXI a. Looking north-west over Grimspound. A hut circle in the foreground, with the retaining wall of the pound beyond. Headland Warren Farm with its Araucarias in the middle distance, with the hillside to its left scarred by tin workings
b. Grimspound, the main gateway
Plate XXII a. Gidleigh stone circle
b. Challacombe triple stonerow
Plate XXIII a. Dartmoor ponies
b. Dartmoor architecture, cottage at Lettaford
Plate XXIV. River Dart, near Dartmeet
Plate 1. Looking north-west from King Tor
Plate 2. Autumn at Merivale
Plate 3. Tavy Cleave: a typical water-cut higher reach
Plate 4. The Teign valley above Dunsford: a characteristic, deeply-cut secondary valley, heavily wooded with scrub oak
Plate 5. Maidenhair Spleen wort, Asplenium trichomanes, on a stone wall
Plate 6. Ring Ouzels, Turdus torquatus, male and female with young at a nest in old tin-workings
Plate 7. Larva of Emperor Moth, Saturnia pavonia, on heather
Plate 8. The River Avon from Huntingdon Warren. The low mound of one of the old warrens in the centre foreground
Plate 9. Hare Tor, with bog and stream in the foreground
Plate 10. Bog Asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum
Plate 11 (above). Intermediate Sundew, Drosera intermedia, and Marsh St. John’s Wort, Hypericum elodes
(below). Pale Butterwort, Pinguicula lusitanica, Lesser Skull-cap, Scutellaria minor, and Bog Pimpernel, Anagallis tenella.
Plate 12. Kestrel Falco tinnunculus, and young at nest on an old quarry ledge
Plate 13. Common Buzzard, Buteo buteo, on nest in a Scot’s Pine
Plate 14. The Teign at Steps Bridge in spring. Wild daffodils, Narcissus pseudo-narcissus, in the foreground; a weir runs diagonally across stream with a scrub-covered talus below it
Plate 15. The River Walkham in autumn
Plate 16. Frenchford Reservoir (Kennick) in light snow