Bird Life in Dutch Marshes 



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Whiie Stork {tnuiiui ctllxt) on Nkst. 



l^Lizzard Ijcyoud Buz- 

 zard, Kite beyond Kite, 

 as far as the eye could 

 see. 



In Norfolk the fen 

 fauna is making a last 

 stand, niucli as tlie 

 English did after the 

 Conquest in tlie old Ely 

 fen, and, hke tlieni, they 

 are year l)y year dwin- 

 dling down and being 

 o\'erwliehncd by a new 

 order of things ; so tliat 

 the ornithologist desirous 

 of observing their habits, 

 being unable to find 

 them with any degree of 

 certainty, is compelled 

 to cross the North Sea 

 and follow them to their 

 li aunts in I) a n i s li 

 marshes, and in the 

 '• meers " and " polders " 

 of Holland, while there 

 is yet time. Even there 

 the greed of mankind is 

 pressing heavily on them, 

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