SPOONBILLS AND STORKS IN HOLLAND. 



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but I cannot expect other people to wait with me. However, I am in 

 hopes of having an opportunity of spending three or four days next 

 year by myself, at an earlier date, in this most interesting marsh. 



NEST OF STORK WITH TWO YOUNG. 

 (Photographed from life by Ii. B. Lodge, Enfield.) 



The Spoonbills, I am informed, had settled in the meer 

 some years previously, on the draining of another large meer 

 some miles away. Then an attempt had been made to drain 

 this meer also, and the birds had been driven away for several 

 seasons ; but the attempt was not successful, the meer had re- 

 verted to its former condition, and the Spoonbills and other marsh 

 birds had returned to their haunts, where I hope, in the interests 

 of all ornithologists, they may long be permitted to remain. 



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