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As long as it remained on the ground the Terns 

 paid little attention to it, but directly it recovered 

 from the shock and attempted to make off, the 

 whole colony was after it instantaneously, so that 



YOUNG COMMON' TERN. 



it again sank to earth in a dazed condition, and 

 that was the last I saw of it. Let us hope it escaped 

 what must have been a terrible ordeal. 



Finding a Linnet's nest amongst the Terns, I 

 placed my handkerchief over it and returned for my 

 camera a short distance away. Scarcely had I left my 



