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Pictures of Bird Life 



ji])le to see a "ood deul of tlie birds, watcliini>" them throiisfh 



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our glasses, both on trees and on tlie <>r()imd. 



Oiiee T saw two of the young birds perelied on tlie 

 goal-posts of a f()()tl)all ground, one at eaeli end. In the 

 same field were also a family of vouni>' Tawny Owls with 



Nest of Partridge {Pcrdix ciiicrea). 



their ])arents. One eyening the wliole fiye were Hying 

 round us, as my eompanion, erouehing with me behind a 

 tree-trunk, gaye a eapital imitation of tlie note. I am 

 myself no good at imitating the notes of birds : but lie, 

 by blowing into his elasped and hollowed hands })etween 

 the thumbs, ean produee the '* AVhoo-whoo " to perfeetion. 



