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place, and the only birds then to be seen on the 

 water were one or two Moor-hens. To show what 

 a difference protection makes, a friend and myself 

 visited this lake one afternoon a few months after 

 the house had been occupied, and what we then 



YOUNG WILD DUCKS. 



saw would have made many a sportsman long tu 

 be there with his gun. A flock of about twenty 

 Wild Ducks were quietly swimming about ; num- 

 bers of Coots were also there, with Moor- hens to 

 be seen in abundance. Two Herons were standing 

 knee-deep on the margin of the reeds, and one of 



