BEHIND THE VEIL IN BIRDLAND 



find a more beautiful curve than that on the breast of the bird in 

 my photograph. 



The two dark blotches in the background are Sparrows. These 

 birds remind me very much of some human beings when a camera 

 is set up in the street of a town. They crowd into a picture and 

 so spoil it ; at least that is what happened on this occasion. But 

 very soon afterwards I wanted two photographs of a Sparrow to 

 illustrate an article I was writing, and it took me just two whole 

 days to secure these ! When I wanted the Sparrows I could not 

 get them, and when I did not want them they crowded into my 

 picture, and to some extent spoilt it. 



Very large numbers of these fine birds are caught in the 

 London suburbs by bird-catchers. Nets are spread across small 

 streams, and by the side of hedgerows, and by beating the bushes 

 the birds are driven into the snare. I am glad to say that I have 

 been the means of saving many such birds from life-long misery 

 in a small cage. 



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