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WITH NATURE AAW A CAMEBA. 



in on every hand by thick hed(>'cs, and surroinided 

 l)y other g-ardens, in some of which trees of moderate 

 size are gTowing*. In the centre is an ideal Httle 

 pool, that looks as natural as peat-smoke in a High- 

 land glen. It is commanded by a })air of small 

 clap-nets, which are worked from a neat little 

 smnmer-house at the bottom of tlie garden. Our 

 friend, who is justly proud of his liome-made 

 miniature loch, informed us that migratory birds 



are particularly fond 

 of stopping to wash 

 and refresh them- 

 selves at it ; and in 

 evidence of the way 

 it is appreciated, it 

 need oidy be men- 

 tioned that he has 

 caught pied, grey, 

 and yellow Wag- 

 tails whilst they 

 have been running 

 al)out on its pebbly 

 banks in a single 

 season. 

 He used to catch Nightingales in his garden 

 in great numbers by means of a trap baited with 

 mealworms. One of our illustrations on pag-e 29-'] 

 represents the engine set ready to receive a visitor. 

 Directly the unwary bird hops on to the raised, 

 circular kind of percli in the centre^ with a view to 

 devouring the tempting gruljs within it, he releases 

 a spring, which swiftly carries a net oven- liim and 

 renders his chances of escape exceedingly snudl, as 

 a reference to our second pi(;ture of a similar traj) 

 with a Robin in it will show. Although not 

 exactly the same kind of trap, it works on the 



WILD CHAFFINCH STUDYING EIRD- 

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