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it limb from limb in their sight, and then casting the several 

 limbs about your fields, than if you hung up half a dozen 

 dead ones." 



As in the old days, so again at this present time, want 



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of knowledge of their food and habits is causing the whole- 

 sale destruction of these birds in many parts of England 

 and Scotland. This is a great mistake, for whatever mis- 



