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WILD SPORTS OF- THE HIGHLANDS chap, ix 



him several yards along the road ; and this done, she ran at 

 my heels like a .barn-dooj- hen. As I passed, I saw her newly- 

 hatched broo^ along the edge of fl^e^r path. I have known 

 a pheasant do' exactly the same thing. .Wild ducks, snipes, 

 woodcocks, and many other shy birds, will, also throw them- 

 selves bodily withifi the i;each of destruction' iri defence of their 

 young. . . 



whitetheoat's .nest 



