1 88 Among the Birds in Northern Shires. 



screech as the metal met the grindstones so familiar 

 to such a spot. Where the horsetail reeds grow 

 up in a dense forest of dark-green from out the 



The Kingfisher. 



shallow parts of the mill-dam, the Moorhen is 

 often common enough, and rears its young from a 

 floating nest some distance from the bank where 

 only boats can reach it. This latter species is much 

 more familiar than the Kingfisher, and it is astonish- 



