WILD CREATURES OP GARDEN AND HEDGEROW 



their nests, we are as much studying wild 

 nature as if we were watching golden eagles in 

 the Highlands ! The same great laws of Nature 

 rule both, and we are likely to learn as much 

 from one as the other. 



(The Song Thrush of Great Britain, Turdus ph. 

 clarkei, is regarded as a sub-species of the Continental 

 Turdus philomelu^, but our Blackbird is identical 

 with the Turdus m. merula of the Continent.) 



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