Identifier: birdsthroughyear00thom (find matches)
Title: Birds through the year
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Thomas, William Beach, Sir, 1868-1957 Collet, Anthony Keeling, 1877-
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London, Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, ltd
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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YOUNG NUTHATCHES hand, catastrophe has fallen. The chiffchaffs used to buildfor example in the gardens of south London, especiallyDulwich. A few no doubt survived ; but some watchers,at any rate, found not once or twice that just as the youngwere nearly fit to fly they fell victims to a prowling cat. Thedog is not, as a rule, though exceptions exist, a bird-nester;but in its restless and inquisitive wanderings it will destroyout of pure frolic many a robins nest. Yet some small birds are most singularly successful in rear-ing their broods. Stonechats and whinchats, which are fond
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STONECHATS, C0CK SINGING, AND HEN WITH A SMALLLIZARD IN HEE BEAK. By A. W. Seaby. DANGERS OF THE GROUND 177 of nesting just beyond the shelter of a furze-bush, will defythe most prying eyes, though the neighbourhood of the nestis obvious enough. Larks, which build without protectionin the open, suffer very little from weather, and are seldompounced upon, thanks to a subtle sense of protectiveselection ; and their fondness for very dry commons is nolittle protection against the rains of June. How snug thechats sit under a diaphanous canopy, that keeps off rain but

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