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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



common to the species. Nearer and nearer she 

 came, with her tormentors making an increasingly 

 prodigious din, until at last she flew on to the 

 nest, and sat down, with the sun blazing full in 



SONG-THRUSH PHOTOGRAPHED 

 BY FLASHLIGHT 



WHILST AT ROOST IN A HEDGEROW. 



her face. I allowed her plenty of time in which to 

 get settled down, and then attempted to creep softly 

 down to tlie air-ball at the end of my i)neumatic 



