132 WILD NATURE IN STRATHEARN. 



sounds the alarm on the approach of anything 

 of a suspicious nature, it is more loud and 

 harsh, as "khraa." On this note being sounded 

 all rise and fly away. 



" Their danger well the wary plunderers know, 

 And place a watch on some conspicuous bough." 



The young birds are feathered on the fore 

 part of the head, the base of the bill and nostrils 

 being covered with narrow feathers ; these gradu- 

 ally fall off, and leave them " barefaced " (in 

 more ways than one) to the end of their lives. 



