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much from him. She is duller and darker, and 

 lacks the occasional white patches that adorn 

 her lord. But she shares his general air of keen 

 life and his rapidity of movement, being in every 

 respect a helpmeet for him. 



Mr. Enock has represented her in No. 2 in 

 a characteristic attitude, perched on a small twig 



NO. 2. THE BUTCHER-BIRD'S WIFE. 



of hawthorn, and ready to pounce down upon 

 a luckless fly, whose movements she is watching 

 with interested attention. 



I say hawthorn on purpose, for the peculiarity 

 of the butcher-bird is that in England or abroad 

 it haunts for the most part thorn-bearing bushes. 

 With us, it is but a summer migrant, occurring 



