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 R I NG-OUZEL. J^urdus torquatus 



May 6tk, 1893. I photographed this nest on the steep side of a small rocky 

 glen in Tweedsmuir, Peeblesshire. I had seen the birds, and heard their plaintive 

 notes on two occasions in the same spot. I watched the female for nearly an 

 hour before she went to the nest, and it took me three or four minutes to find 

 it after I had marked the spot. Just as I had discovered it, a bird rushed 

 past my head, and turning round I saw the Ring-Ouzel sitting on a stone 

 not ten feet from me. As I stooped down to examine it more closely she flew 

 past again, almost brushing me with her wings. All the time I was there 

 they waked the echoes of the glen with loud cries, and it was not till I had 

 disappeared over the shoulder of the hill that peace was restored. 



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