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BIRDS SHOT BY THE REV. FRANCIS GISBORNE. 



volume. The paper, such as it is, has been compiled amid the 

 responsibilities of a large and extensive parish in those odds and 

 ends of time which fall to the lot of most of us. If it should 

 prove of sufficient interest to induce our local naturalists to give 

 the county volume the occasional results of their observation and 

 experience, it will not have been written in vain. 



I\' M.WbLliV CIU-KCHYAKU. 



