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BIRDS, BEASTS, AND FISHES 



wheatear is a bird of whom we know little in the marsh- 

 lands, for he comes in spring, flits up by the summer 

 dikes as you pass, and goes away again in August, so that 

 the chief memory we have of him is his soft song and the 

 vision of his flickering presence. 



COMMON WHEATEAR'S NEST AND EGGS. 



