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BRITISH BIRDS. 



[vol. IX. 



to change his plate and get another shot, for several 

 seconds elapse before the bird's legs, which are tense 

 after the kick off, can be gathered up and thrust out 

 behind. (Figs. 5, 6 and 7). 





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Fig. li. HKKOX : SI.OWLV RISING. 



(Photographed by Miss E. L. Turner.) 



Many Jackdaws came down to batlio in tlic mere, but 

 I did not succeed in getting good photographs of them. 

 They generally eliose a s])()t where cattle came to drink. 

 I put up a tent there, but each time it was knocked down 

 by a mildly inquisitive j'^oung bull. 



