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Pictures of Bird Life 



of the iiiountain-passes and tlic dangers of tlie sea-passage, 



tliey reach tlie liedgerow in Old England where they were 



born : and all the summer through the quiet fields and 



leafy lanes, even close up to the great city itself, are 



Nest of Blackbird {Tiirdiis jiicnila). 



enlivened by a diversity of feathered life, and graceful 

 forms and joyous sounds greet us on every side. 



A suburban parish, only partly outside the I^ondon 

 postal district, and on the fringe of a dense population, 

 is not the most likely neighbourhood for observing the 

 life habits of wild birds, and yet it is siu'prising what a 

 number of species are to be met with as more or less 



