. Wild nature's ways . SWALLOWS NEST IN OLD SHOE. 66 WILD NATURES ON STONE IN LOCH. different species. No amount of persecution seemsto make them waver for a moment in their alle-giance. If either member of a pair should falla victim to gun or trap, the sur\ivor straightwaydisappears in search of a new mate, and I haveknown the second wife or husband, as the casemight be, brought home within twenty-four hoursof the calamity to the departed. Even if male and female should both sufferdeath in one season, a fresh pair of birds willfrequently arrive the following year to battle,with patheti
. Wild nature's ways . SWALLOWS NEST IN OLD SHOE. 66 WILD NATURES ON STONE IN LOCH. different species. No amount of persecution seemsto make them waver for a moment in their alle-giance. If either member of a pair should falla victim to gun or trap, the sur\ivor straightwaydisappears in search of a new mate, and I haveknown the second wife or husband, as the casemight be, brought home within twenty-four hoursof the calamity to the departed. Even if male and female should both sufferdeath in one season, a fresh pair of birds willfrequently arrive the following year to battle,with pathetic bravery, against odds of infinitelength. Stranger still, hereditary rights would appearto be maintained by some birds in a nesting siteeven at the cost of violating a family habit. Thecommon gull is a gregarious bird, yet from time CURIOSITIES OF WILD LIFE. 67 immemorial a solitary pair has bred every yearon the stone depicted in our illustration on theopposite page, situated in the middle of a smallHebridean fresh-water loch. It is by no means an uncommon occurrenc
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