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Some Colony Birds. 
full of birds and we could hear the pipinj^ of Larks and the 
whistling of Waders all round us. Never shall T forf^et that 
beautiful night. Hour after hour we flew but we were far too 
excited to feel tired. At last the sun rose; beneath us lay 
a fishing fleet and far ahead of us we saw a low sandy coast 
and harbour, where hundreds of fishinf,'- smacks lay andiored 
in rows. It smelled of fish like \^ardoe, but was much larger 
and I know now that it was Great Yarmouth. As we neared 
the coast *we [dropped lower and lower and at last pitched among 
the sand-grass on the dimes. We had arrived! 
And now occurred an event which changed the whole 
course of my life. We had been born and bred in one of 
the most remote corners of Europe and naturally of the wide 
world— its sorrows and snares, its bird-catchers and bird- 
cages — we knew absolutely nothing, though, like other very 
ignorant people, we thought we knew everything. When there- 
fore we saw a pair of clap-nets with some very inviting 
looking seed and a few call -birds we never paused to con- 
sider the object of the device but pitched right in the middle 
of the nets and in a single instant we were prisoners. Then 
came a tiring journey in a small, dark and evil-smelling box 
and at last we found ourselves in a large cage in a kitchen. 
Someone looked at us rather dubiously and said : " I wonder, 
cook, whether these birds ought to have seed or soft-food?" 
" Goodness gracious me, Mary," replied the other person rather 
snappishly, " how should I know? Give them a little of each 
for luck,"— and a little of each we had. 
To be coiitinued. 
Some Colony Birds. 
Comi)iled by W. T. Piisje, F.Z.S., from :in article by the Rev. Chiis. T5. 
Dawson. J.S., M.A., in " TIMEHRI " (The Jounwl of the Royal Agricul- 
ural and Commercial Society of British Guiana), with compliments and 
thanks to the Author and Editors. 
(Conl/nued from page 118). 
The writer informs us that twenty-six species of Hum- 
ming Birds are indigenous to the colony aiid give fairly lengthy 
descriptions of the following two species, from which I make 
these brief extracts. 
White-thkoated Humming-bird (Ag'j/tria lencogusler) . 
