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WILD LIFE AT HOME. 



share those that become satisfied first hang 

 back and give their hungry brothers and sisters 

 a chance. I am more inclined to believe this 

 than that a bird, only fetching one caterpillar at a 

 time to a family of seven or eight, knows each 



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chick, and remembers upon every visit exactly 

 which had the proceeds of his or her last journey. 

 As soon as we had made a few studies, one of 

 which forms the frontispiece to this work, with 

 the camera and its operator hidden among the 

 reeds, we released all the- little captives, and they 

 went off with their parents as happy as could be. 



