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forjhe driving away of this shy bird from some of its old 
triS o™tL‘gUrparf'^^^^^^^ is dis- 
as the Valley of the Yene^sei and thm^ 
also in Western Turkestan ’on breeding 
9°™tries of Southern Europe burSfr" 
that It does not breed south of fhe line ‘'^’'eves 
winter quarters are in Africa and J tf,- ^ Pyrenees. Its 
Sz:nt£i.nitjor 
Eastern United States, and 
tant of our pasTure-I^ds ?n ^umm?'*''^] 'nbabi- 
monotonous heard esn’ “® 
and long after darkness has set in’ towards evening, 
oquial, and Mr. Howard Saimdev. ^ '® d'stinctly ventrh 
; to the marvellous rSky with twiich if 'r 
from one spot to another” I lni,« ^ ^ ®tieaks, unperceived, 
but, on the contrary, I befiJve thT “b^-ved thisi 
Creeper or the Gr/sshopper Warbler the "°‘^® ^le 
Corn-Crake’s note has that ventrilom ti ^ utterance of the 
cry sound far or near. I remember “^''es its 
my way into one of our own fields of h “=tbing 
search of one of these Ss afnfvi? 
yards of the Crake its note "'ithin ten 
compass around me’j but I stopped^tfil ref’ ^T^® 
by Its ventriloquism, untilTcre ’to 
I was sure that the sounds nroceedM a ®P°^ ^'iience 
to approach so close above t that I f ^ managed 
mg It before it scented dnni„5 ^ f succeeded in catch- 
friend Briggs, the Cookham nfturafisl 
skin birds, and with whom Mr Howa to 
have had many a ramble used • i ‘''"d myself 
to track Land-Rails hiThe grass ^ 
^on walking with him n the meadmJs''^™^"’^"" 
-.M was, ta. as i. „e. „p, 
