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DWELLERS IN NESTS. 

 PART VII. 



The Heron Fight between a Peregrine Falcon and a Heron r 

 Fatal Encounter between a Falcon and a Heron Herons 

 as Food Swans as Food Uses of Herons' Feathers 

 Varieties of Herons noticed in Britain The Bittern The 

 Jack Snipe The Common Snipe The Solitary Snipe 

 Varieties of British Snipe Snipe- shooting Indian Snipe- 

 shooting Snipe when shot difficult to find Snipe-crouching 

 Snipe returning to same Spot after being flushed My first 

 Woodcock Migration of Woodcocks A Strange ' Right 

 and Left ' Dixon on Migration of Birds Mortality 

 amongst Birds on Passage Woodcocks returning to the 

 same Spot when flushed Drawing a Woodcock Use of 

 Woodcock Feathers Woodcock carrying their Young 

 British Plovers The Golden Plover The Ringed Plover 

 The Oyster-catcher The Dotterel The Kentish Plover 

 The Gray Plover The Turnstone. 



I ALWAYS feel somewhat ashamed of myself in 

 abusing the heron (and I do so solely from a 

 fisherman's point of view), for he is a truly in- 

 teresting bird, and if somewhat ungainly at times, 

 his plumage, though not brilliant, is very beautiful ; 

 but, as I have elsewhere remarked, he is a terrible 

 fish-poacher, and where these birds are numerous 



