Idle Days in Patagonia. 



The trees of the Mission House proved very 

 attractive to these birds ; the tall Lombardy poplars 

 were specially favoured, -which seems strange, for in 

 a high wind (and it was veiy windy just then) the 



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slim unresting tree forms as bad a perehing- 

 place as a bird could well settle on. Never the- '' 

 less, to the poplars they would come when the wind 

 Avas most violent ; first hovering or wheeling about in 

 an immense flock, then, as occasion offered, dropping 

 down 



a few at a time, to cling. 



ike roosting 



