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imicli from him. Slic is duller and darker, and 

 lacks the occasional white patches that adorn 

 her lord. But she shares his j^eneral air of keen 

 life and his rapidity of movement, being in every 

 respect a helpmeet for him. 



Mr. Knock has represented iier in No. 2 in 

 a characteristic attitude, perched on a small twig 



N<1. 2. — THK HircilKR-IURIi S WMK 



of hawthorn, and ready to pounce down upon 

 a luckless tly, whose movements she is watching 

 with interested attention. 



1 say hawthoi n on purpose, for the peculiarity 

 of the butcher-hird is that in Kngland or abroad 

 It haunts f(H- the mo-.t pait thorn-bearing bushes. 

 With us, it is but a sununer migrant, occurring 



