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special pleading, " and ' our' case does not need it." 

 The charge of wanton cruelty cannot be made 

 against naturalists, it has no foundation whatever; 

 and, as a class, they will be found - to be much 

 kinder to animals; much more careful not to injure 

 them, than anyone is likely to be who knows 

 nothing of their habits: . 



NESTS AND EGGS OF OUR 

 COMMON BIRDS. 



. . Bt S. L. Mosley.. •■ 'J 

 SHRIKES AND FLYCATCHERS. 

 The Red-backed Shrike is rather common in'some 

 parts of England, building a nest of moss, wool, 

 grass, &c, in bushes and hedgerows. The eggs 

 are creamy white, with a ring of brownish and 

 ash coloured spots at the larger end. ; The Spotted 

 .Flycatcher is a common bird ; it builds in a few 

 branches against the bole of a tree, or in a fruit 

 tree trained against a house side, and sometimes 

 in very curious places. One is recorded- in the 

 Je Zoologist ; ' as having built on a hoe that hung 

 in an out-house, and the nest was not discovered 

 until it was finished. When the hoe was wanted 

 .the nest was carefully taken off and laid on a shelf 

 and replaced again when the hoe was done with. 



The birds' seemed "to -approve' of this, plan, 

 reared a brood of young ones 'in safety. I o 

 found one inside a thrush's nest, both of wh 

 contained eggs. The nest is ; generally buil 

 grass and moss, lined with hair or a few feath? 

 and the eggs are whitish and thickly spotted 

 blotched with sienna red. I have one complel 

 white. The Pied Flycatcher is a much, rarer b 

 building in crevices of old stone walls or poll 

 trees, and the eggs are pale bluish-green. 

 Redstart builds in similar situations, and 

 similar eggs ; but the birds may at once be 

 tinguished by the latter having a red breast, 

 tail, black head, and white forehead, while 

 Pied Flycatchers is only black and white* As 

 the owls, you should be sure to observe the 

 and mark the eggs at the time. 



Flowers, so truly representing every shad- 

 loveliness, have at all times been special favor 

 amongst those having a reverence for purity 

 goodness. In many parts of the world flo^ 

 have a religious significance. They adorn 

 festive gathering, lighten suffering, and beau 

 death. Inspired writers have tound in tl 

 frailty and transitoriness apt illustrations of hur 

 life. Lord Bacon, the philosopher, says that 

 garden is the purest of human pleasures," 

 poetry abounds with allusions to their varied t 

 and graceful forms. 



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