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WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



nest and waiting to enter it, they let their 

 wings droop low by their sides, and shook 

 them in the tremulous manner so common to 

 young birds of many species when being fed after 

 they have left the nest. I have noticed the 

 same habit in other members of the Tit family. 



YOUNG SPOTTED FLYCATCHERS. 



Although within a comparatively short distance 

 of London, I found the following birds' nests all 

 within fifty yards of each other, and containing 

 eggs or young in this little copse: Carrion Crow, 

 Red-backed Shrike, Nightingale, Whitethroat, Black- 

 bird, Marsh Tit, Tree Sparrow, Common Wren, 

 and Chiffchaff. 



During the part of our holidays which we spent 

 in Westmorland in the summer of 1897, my brother 



