222 TALKS ABOUT BIRDS 



feat of Mr. Wolley's to have got them at 

 all, and there is something appropriate in a 

 naturalist having taken more trouble than has 

 ever been taken before or since over bird's 

 eggs, when the eggs to be got were those of a 

 bird which, as I have said, is the greatest of 

 bird adventurers itself. 



