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THE WOODLANDS. 



owls, has been credited with a fishing propensity. 

 Waterton was watching one of them carrying mice to 

 its nest, when suddenly she dropped perpendicularly 

 into the water. Thinking she had fallen down in 

 an epilepsy, his first thought was to go and fetch the 

 boat ; but before he had got to the end of the bridge 

 on which he was standing, he saw the owl rise out 

 of the water with a fish in her claws, and take it to 

 the nest. 



THE RED-BACKED SHRIKE, 



A much smaller predatory bird than any of these 

 is the Red-backed Shrike, 1 a summer visitant found at 



1 Lanius collurio. 



