I and 3. YOUNG WILLOW- WRENS (Photos by Miss E. L. Titrne 

 2. YOUNG PIGEON (Photo by C. Reid, Wishaw). 

 The Pigeon, a near relation of the Plover, is in its nestling 

 stage reduced to the same helpless condition which obtains among 

 the Passeres — e.g. Willow Wren — and for the same reasons. 



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