^ The Voices of the Wilderness 



his attempts to stalk wild animals, and their strident 

 screeches, to which all other animals hearken, haunt him 

 long after, as also the call and cry of the large, yellow- 

 eyed thick-knee, an inhabitant of the loneliest solitudes. 

 But I cannot imagine the low shores of African lakes 

 and the sea-coast without the cry of the widely distributed 



A SHRIKE [LANJUS CAUDATIS' Cab.) ON THE LOOK-OUT FROM THE HIGH BOUGHS 

 OF AN ACACIA. ITS CRIES WHEN IT SEES A HUNTER ON THE MOVE 

 OFTEN WARN THE ANIMALS HE IS STALKING. 



sandpiper, which has its home in the far north. In winter 

 its low plaintive cry is heard at every step : but even in 

 summer the trained ear can distinguish it here and there. 

 These individual stragglers from the north are thus to 

 be found during all times of the year in this distant 

 country, while the most of their kindred tribe have 



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