94 ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS 



height above him. The soaring figure reveals to sight 

 and mind the immensity and glory of the visible world. 

 Without it the blue sky can never seem sublime. 



But the great soaring bird is nowhere in our lonely 

 skies, and missing it we remember the reason of its 

 absence and realise what the modern craze for the 

 artificially reared pheasant has cost us. 



