Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 



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The first attempt l)r()iii>lit tlicm from a distant tree, till 

 they settled just ovei* our iieads, where we eould see their 

 forms hy the moonlight against the sky. 



Tile gallant little Sparrow-hawk is not nearly so eommon 

 as the Kestrel, and I lune not seen a nest nearer than 

 Epping Forest. Many are hi'ought to me in the autunui 

 by bird-eatehers, whieh ha\ e been eaught in the aet of 

 attacking their call-birds, I think the majority of them are 

 taken in the neighbourhood of Xorthaw. Oeeasionaliy the 

 l)ird-eatehers take Kestrels in the same way. One day I had 

 a beautiful little cock Kestrel brought to me. To save it 

 from the fate of being killed and set up in a public-house 

 bar, which is what its captor pui-j:)osed to do with it, if I 



IIl.n PiiiiA.'sAM {Pluisiainis culchiciis) u.n Nest 



