THE LEAST BITTERN 



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36. Least Bittern eatint; her crcs. 



we were ])reseiit, and tlie following da.y we foitud 

 their nest emi^tj' — a mute protest against fate. 



The female of the second nest discovered, in which 

 only two of the five eggs had been injured, proved to 

 be a bird of character. 



