LETTER III. 



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molested last year in hopes of getting the young, in which I was 

 disappointed by being absent from the island just at the time 

 they were fledged. This nest is a 

 very old establishment, and 



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has been occupied many 



years. Nearly every evening, and at all 



times of the year, the old pair come to roost in its neighbourhood. 



I have sometimes watched them making themselves comfortable 



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