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placing the back of ray hand to my lips, and sucking in my lips 

 with a labial sound, I made a fairly good imitation of their cries. 

 This brought them nearer, and some of them came so close that 

 I could almost have stretched out mv hand and touched them. 



Whitehead. 



Brown Creeper. 



I t'fltj. Eri'bits and Terror.) 



Wliile I was watching their strange antics, the twitter suddenly 

 stopped for a few seconds. When it began again, it was dying 

 away in the distance over the tree-tops. The whole flock had 

 suddenly thought of some urgent business in another part of the 

 forest, and had set out post haste to attend to it. I saw very 



