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Earlv Stray Notes. 



tlie little Plover. The (Jiiail would always come at his call. 

 l)iU thev did not always i-et the worm, as a little, self-cauLiht 



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hen Blachcan became quite expert at suatchini;" the worms from 

 the beak of the Plover; the latter would take these from my 

 hands and would keep the ^'ame up as long' as T cared to hand 

 them out. I am afraid that I wasted much time in this partic 

 ular aviary. 



