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One day a Jackdaw alighted on the tent when I wa.s 

 inside and investigated every inch of it outside. He 

 clung to the sides and tried hard to get his head through 

 my peep holes. Then he rained heax'y blows with his 



Fig. 7. HERON: GETTING UNDEIi WAY WHILE BEING MOBBED 

 BY A BLACK-HEADED GULL. 



(Photographed by Miss E. L. Turner,) 



beak all over the top, and I had to crouch down in order 

 to avoid them. Meanwhile, he kept up a running 

 conversation with himself and seemed extremely indignant 

 about somethmg. Curiously enough, the Jackdaw w^as 

 mobbed and finally driven away by a pair of Terns. 



