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likened to nothing so much as a piece of brown 

 paper being carried up and down hither and 

 thither b}^ a fickle wind. She had a nest close 

 by containing two chicks and two unfertile 



SHORT-EARED OWLS NEST. 



eggs, the remaining three members of the 

 family were like those in the nest, of vary- 

 ing sizes, and scattered about in the sur- 

 rounding heather at distances of from fifteen 

 to fifty yards from their old home. The short- 

 tailed field vole shown in our illustration had 



