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drowsy sleeper the great hall of the chimney would 

 certainly seem a pandemonium. My father's chimney 

 stacks act as survey grounds, and close by a certain old 

 laugher perches in a faithful way upon a church cross. It 

 resorts to all kinds of country — the heavily-timbered, the 



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Fig. 27. 



Great Brown Kingfisher, adult and young. One-sixth 

 natural size. 



clumps of trees in dry areas, or in tlie environment of 

 tilled lands. Its food is certainly a mixed quantity, as 

 insects, lizards, snakes, crabs, and even rats are pulped and 

 swallowed. To give an idea of certain facts in the economy 



