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Pictures of Bird Life 



more even than I had before, the truth and power of his 

 descriptions. 



The liorses were off-saddled, and I was soon in the waders 



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End of Bee-eater's Nesting Burrow {Mctops apiaster). 



and hard at work ])hotograpliing the birds, as they chistered 

 thickly on the topmost twigs of tlie buslies in all sorts of 

 grotesque and curious attitudes. As soon as one bird liad 

 grasped a slender twig in its awkward-looking feet, and 

 while still struggling to preserve its balance in the high 

 w4nd, another one would fly up and knock it off, only 

 itself to be ousted by a third a moment afterwards. Others 

 were constantly flying roimd and attempting to settle, and 



