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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



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TURTLE-DOVE. 



our birds in almost identical actions, attitudes, 

 and situations. 



One day a pair of barn swallows, busily 

 engaged in building a nest somewhere, visited 

 the pond ten times an hour for mud, and took 

 from three to fifteen pecks, according to its 

 consistency at the particular part where they 

 happened to alight. On an average they brought 

 a straw in their bills three times out of every 

 five visits. 



Altogether the stuffed ox proved an un- 

 qualified success from a concealment point of 

 view, and by its aid we secured at the cattle 

 pond photographs of pheasants, jays, ring doves, 

 turtle doves, stock doves, song thrushes, black- 

 birds, yellowhammers, greenfinches, chaffinches, 

 and sparrows. 



