BEHIND THE VEIL IN BIRDLAND 



The Chough lays its eggs in a hole in the cliff, and the nest 

 is, as a rule, difficult to reach. For some unaccountable reason, 

 the birds, which nest in small colonies, suddenly desert their old 

 haunts and go out and seek new. This habit is no doubt good 

 for them, for if they had remained faithful to one haunt, like 

 some other species, they might have been, ere this, numbered 

 amongst our lost breeding birds. Indeed, it may not be many years 

 before they are included in that list, for they cannot long stand the 

 onslaught that modern clutch and variety collectors are waging 

 against them. If the clutch collector would be content with one 

 clutch there would not be any fear for our rare breeding birds, but 

 it is the collector of varieties who is so destructive to our 

 disappearing species. 



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