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mgs, and then went off in the direction 
of her scattered family. 
The boys were angry. They said: “We 
ought to have killed them all! There 
won't be any trout left”! I watched the 
King Fishers closely after that and sure 
enough they did know the trout holes as 
well as the boys did! 
NORTHWESTERN BELTED KING FISHER 
We would not have them killed though, 
for that, for ive like to live among them. 
If necessary, let us stock our streams with 
a few more trout so that the birds may 
live as ivell as we. 
Besides, these are the famous Halcyon 
birds. Halcyon was the daughter of 
Aeolus, the God of the Winds. Her hus¬ 
band was drowned in the Aegean Sea. 
She was warned of this in a dream and 
