TH TR D WBE ON APRIL 31 
told how the seeds from which the canes 
must have grown had got there, helping, 
perhaps, to explain the specific name of the 
rook, frugilegus, that is ‘fruit gathering,’ 
the meaning of which is not apparent as applied 
foibhese birds;):(see Part» LI, synopsis,:«p- 
209). As we punted past the log, a big jack 
that had its home under its dark shadow, 
gave a sudden audible rush (as is their wont 
when disturbed), creating quite a swirl in his 
wake. Both old and young herons are very 
voracious. A single bird will commit great 
havoc amongst the fry of fish. (Judging from 
the ways of a young heron which Ted has 
recently kept in his garden, our surmise in 
Part I, p. 72,as to the eyes and entrails of a 
jack and some perch we had found having 
been pecked out by a heron, was correct. For 
if a fish be given to him, he immediately com- 
mences on the eyes, and will devour the en- 
trails greedily.) But the hundred and odd 
birds here, and their young, could not have 
got all their needs supplied in these waters, 
so the old birds make long journeys to marsh 
