NATURE'S CAROL SINGERS. 



I thought that the writer was prepar- 

 ing to justify himself for eating larks, 

 but this practice he appeared to decry 

 almost as much as the bird's music. 



Skylarks frequently borrow notes from 

 other birds. In the Outer Hebrides 

 great numbers of them introduce the 

 sweet call notes of the Ringed Plover 

 into their carols. Unless some enemy 

 in the shape of a Merlin appears in the 

 sky they always, or nearly always, end 

 their songs with a note sounding like 

 hear-it, hear-it, hear-it. The call sounds 

 like tu-wit y iwe-wit, or two wut. 



