138 love's meinie. 



habits also the creature seems as exemplary 

 as, in its social habits, it is frank ; for on the 

 approach of danger to her nestlings, the hen 

 uses all the careful subtleties of the most 

 cunning land birds, " spreading her wings, 

 and counterfeiting lameness, for the purpose 

 of deluding the intruder ; and after leading 

 the enemy from her young, she takes wing 

 and flies to a great height, at the same time 

 displaying a peculiar action of the wings ; then 

 descending with great velocity, and making 

 simultaneously a noise with her wings. On 

 her return to her young, she uses a particular 

 cry for the purpose of gathering them together. 

 As soon as she has collected them, she covers 

 them with her wings, like the domestic hen." 



113. I cannot quite make out the limits of 

 the fairy's migrations ; but it is said by Morris 

 to ' occur ' in France, Holland, Germany, Italy, 

 and Switzerland. I find that one was what 

 sportsmen call ' procured ' near York, in full 

 summer dress ; and another killed at Rotting- 

 dean, swimming in a pond in the middle of 

 the village, in the company of some ducks. 

 At Scarborough, Louth, and Shoreham, it 

 has also been captured or shot, and has been 



