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as tlK'ii' hliu'-wiiiu'cd cou.sins do wiili us. The lit I Ic \v;ill 

 i'i'c('[)er is uiic ui' llic prettiest l)ir(ls ;- l)lack and gi'a\-, wilh 

 liiilliaiit criiiisoii wiim's. and l)oak ciii'vcd like a curlew's, 

 lie llutters ubuut the liot rocks — a close imitation of a 

 butterfly, — and this resemblance is enhanced by his lialiit 

 of spreading his wings in the sun wlicu he alights. I^agles 



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are numerous, and the great lammergeier is not larc. T 

 have known as nianv as fnc of the loruicr lo coiuc down 

 to the body of an i/.zard, which had been too much 

 smashed 1)V falling over the clitl' to be removecl. and com- 

 mence a I'urious contest bei'ore we had hit it \n\- live 

 minutes. There are a lew foxes about, and occasionalK' 

 I have seen pine martens. Oiu' of those animals came and 

 Silt witluii tldrty yards of me. A> lhe<bi\c was nearly 

 over ] [uit a l>ulk't through Idni. and he makes a very 

 handsome mount in my hall. 



