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The Bird 



Herons are the 'still-fishers' of the bird world, and stand 

 in the shallows, silent and motionless as the reeds around 

 them, with their lance-hke beaks in rest and their necks 



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Fig. 120. — Great Blue Heron, a still hunter. (Sanborn, photographer. Courtesy 

 N. Y. Zoological Society.) 



at a hair-trigger poise. So we see that few kinds of fish, 

 from the lowly lamprey to the jewelled brook trout, 

 escape the sharp eyes of birds, and even when decayed 



