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A YEAR WITH NATURE. 



contents of the cases in the centre, and the ones running along 

 the whole length of the right hand side walls. It would be 

 vain for me to attempt to describe all I saw, and space 

 does not permit me to do so. Eagles, Owls, Hawks, Grouse, 

 Warblers, Tits, Buntings, Finches, Golden Orioles, Bee Eaters, 

 Rollers, Little Auks, Gannets, Ivory Gulls, Guillemots, Terns, 

 Geese, Ducks, Grebes, Herons, Crows, Wagtails, Woodpeckers 



GREAT BUSTARDS AT TRING PARK. 



and Creepers ; this will give an idea of the many families of 

 birds here gathered together. 



The case of Humming Birds is indeed a study, and, when it 

 is stated that four hundred species are known to exist on the 

 American Continent alone, the expense and trouble to which 

 Mr. Rothschild is put in his endeavours to obtain every variety 

 may well be imagined. 



The Albino specimens are truly marvellous, two special 

 rarities being pointed out to me, namely, a white Waxwing 

 and a white Great Grey Shrike. A white Black Grouse a 



