Birds on the Eastern Fronts 
tery that it would not#@ave. It accompanied 
the guns through several fights, notably 
Asiago, the Austrian offensive of June 15th, 
1918, where it was gassed, and Montello. 
MACEDONIA 
STORKS were numerous near Salonika, and 
one of these birds acquired the habit of 
meeting our aeroplanes wherever they landed 
and soon came to be regarded by the pilots 
as their mascot. 
After a terrific tearing and roaring noise of 
artillery and shot in “‘the dead of night ” 
there would be a temporary cessation of the 
duel, when out would come the NIGHTIN- 
GALES, right above the guns, perched some- 
times only a few yards from them in some 
bushes, in a ravine where our guns were 
hidden. 
An EAGLE, well looked after and carefully 
handled, became the pet of a subaltern in 
the Balkans. 
PALESTINE 
It was remarked that in Palestine the birds 
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