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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT 

 ON NEST. 



full to the brim of 

 well-grown chicks, in 

 a small bramble-cum- 

 bered Surrey wood. 



The industrious 

 little hedge sparrow 

 attending to her 

 household duties, 

 after having given 

 her voracious young ones the food she had 

 brought, was also figured at the same place. 



Not long ago I had an incubating member of 

 this species under daily observation, and when I 

 visited her one morning, discovered that she was 

 pathetically sitting on an absolutely empty nest. 

 Something or somebody had robbed her of her 

 five beautiful turquoise blue eggs, and thinking 

 that I might save her time and an amount of 



