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hawks ; when full, like a dog, it hides what it can. 
not eat. 
The young of the barn-owl are not easily raised, 
as they want a constant supply of fresh mice; 
whereas the young of the brown owl will eat indis. 
criminately all that is brought: snails, rats, kittens, 
puppies, magpies, and any kind of carrion or offal. 
The house-martins have eggs still, and squab. 
young. ‘The last swift I observed was about the 
21st of August; it was a straggler. 
Redstarts, fly-catchers, whitethroats, and reguli 
non cristati still appear ; but I have seen no black- 
caps lately. 
I forgot to mention that I once saw in Christ 
Church College quadrangle, in Oxford, on a very 
sunny, warm morning, a house-martin flying about 
and settling on the parapet so late as the 20th of 
November. 
At present I know only two species of Barts, the 
Sa — == 
i So aries — 
common vespertilio murinus and the vespertilio - 
auribus. 
I was much entertained last summer with a tame 
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