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Pictures of Bird Life 



of a steep hill, c•()^'ered with bracken and oak-trees, up whose 

 sHppery slopes we toiled in a breathless condition, were two 

 bold and isolated pinnacles of rock, and in a crevice half- 

 way 11}) the perpendicnlar face of one of these peaks the 



Kestrels had fi^ e eggn. 15nt J , wlio had descended it by a 



rope, reported the eggs perfectly ont of sight, qnite at arni's- 

 leno'th down a \'ery narrow fissure — evidently not witliin 

 the range of possibility for a photooraph. and an attempt 

 at a A'iew of the rock was not entirely a success. 



The wooded sides of the hills were full of A\^ood-wrens ; 

 and as the nest of this })ird was wanted badly, we tried to 

 watch the female bird to it. But in vain ; for while the 

 hen was plaintively whining in the tree-top overhead, among 



Tufted Duck {Fiiligiila crislata). 



