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certain parts of even a small region; the swimmers will be 

 found in ponds and streams, and the long-legged shore-birds 

 on the pond- or stream-banks, or in the marshes and wet 

 meadows, although a few, like the upland-plover, curlews^ 

 and god wits are common on the dry upland pastures. Dis- 



FiG. 118. Young barn-owls. (Photograph from life by Geo. Towne; 

 permission of The Condor.) 



tinguish the ground-birds from the birds of the shrubs 

 and hedge-rows, and these again from the strictly forest- 

 birds. Find the special haunts of swallows and kingfishers. 

 Which are the shy birds driven constantly deeper into the 

 wild places, or being exterminated by the advance of man? 

 Which birds do not retreat, but even find an advantage in 

 man's seizure of the land, obtaining food from his fields 

 and gardens? 



