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LETTER XVI 



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Christmas Ewelme Snow American Cousins Floods 

 Snow Giants Ground-ice River freezing Feeding 

 the Birds Hibernating Snails Tomtits Hanging 

 Bones Rooks : their artfulness Owls Gnats in 

 Winter Changeableness of weather . . . 100 



LETTER XVII 



Packing of Birds Semi-migration of Larks Robins : their 

 love of localities; their pugnacity; death of; their 

 lameness 108 



LETTER XVIII 



Journey to Maryborough Birds in the Kennet Valley 

 Herons Gulls Starlings infested with Vermin Otter 

 Jack devoured by Otter Otter Hounds The Bee- 

 bird The Resurrection Plant Walnut Trees: their 

 age Waterloo Heroes . . . . . . 114 



LETTER XIX 



Gap in Correspondence Inclement Weather Apricots un- 

 ripened Peas Rooks and Walnuts Farmers : their 

 difficulties Failure in Hay Crop Births and Marriages 

 Young Birds : Difficulties of Rearing Dangers to 

 Young Birds Cats and Birds Terns Forked Tails 

 Swallows' Tails Errors in representing them . . 123 



LETTER XX 



Forked Tails Kingfishers : their Speed Mild weather 

 Anomalies amongst the Flowers owing to Mildness of 

 Weather Stampede of Sheep . . . . . 131 



