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Our Bird Friends. 



specimen belongs to a Golden-crested Wren, and 

 the large one to a Wild Goose. Of course, these 

 extremes are easily beaten by l)irds of other 



.^MALLL.sT AMI LAUfil.ST liKITI^lI 1'.I1M'> i:(,GS. 



conntries. I'^t instanoe, S(^me of the tiny Huin- 

 miiig-hirds ot" Aincric'a l.iy ;i |>;iii' <>f eggs so small 

 that thcv tind I'ooin ('U(HiL;h in a n^'st no higher 



1!AVKn"s AM) COMMON CI ULKw's EGGS {j\ SI). 



than a walnut shell, and the extinct Kjn'ornis (^f 

 Madagascar has left behind it the empty shells ot 



