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knavish cuckoo prefers to lay her eggs in, is that of 

 the titlark ; and in Scowrie and Assynt those hirds 

 abound. 



Another bird, whose cry is invariably associated 

 by me with one kind of locaUty, is the swift. I 

 never hear the loud scream of this bird without 

 having some well-remembered steeple or other lofty 

 building brought vividly before my mind's eye : 

 thus, also, the martin and swallow recall the recol- 

 lection of some favourite stream, whose waters 

 abound in trout, and whose banks swarm with the 

 May-fly and grey drake. 



The crow of the grouse is as inseparable in my 

 mind from the mountains of Scotland, as the song 

 of the ring-ousel is from its birch-covered glens, 

 or' the spring call of the peewit from the marshy 

 meadows. 



There is, I think, great pleasure in thus recol- 

 lecting by the sounds and notes of living animals 

 scenes which the eye has dwelt upon with dehght, 

 and so constant is every bird to its own locality, 

 that the associations thus called forth are invariably 

 correct. 



In preserving game, quiet and food are the two 

 things to be attended to. No animals will remain in 

 places where they are frequently disturbed ; vici- 

 nity to favourable feeding-ground is also a sine qua 



