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life ; but they came at last to an un- 

 timely end, I think from over- eating. 



The lee side only of Bird Island is 

 in favour with the birds, none are to 

 be seen in the quarter exposed to the 

 south-west monsoon. 



A quarter of a mile from the western 

 shore of the Chilka is Deer Island, a 

 low sandy islet, almost covered with 

 thicket, except along its shores, where 

 the rise and fall of tidal water only 

 permits the growth of a wide margin of 

 saline turf. There are glades here and 

 there among the underwood and a few 

 trees. The whole length of the little 

 island is less than a mile. This is the 

 chosen haunt of a small herd of spotted 

 deer, which seems to cross at pleasure 

 from the mainland, some of them being 



