. Wild nature's ways . FEMALE YELLOW WAGTAILGOING TO NEST. 2o6 WILD NATURES WAYS. popularly supposed to be governed by mono-tonously rigid laws of instinct. Not one of the four individuals I had underobservation showed any disposition to give wingedinsects the slightest quarter. If the outermost. MALE YELLOW WAGTAIL. victim in a row held between the mandiblesmanaged to wriggle itself free, and fell into thegrass below, it was instantly followed and re-covered. If a fly of any size passed incautiouslyoverhead it was pursued and invariably caughtby a dexterous vertical flutter. Although the blac
. Wild nature's ways . FEMALE YELLOW WAGTAILGOING TO NEST. 2o6 WILD NATURES WAYS. popularly supposed to be governed by mono-tonously rigid laws of instinct. Not one of the four individuals I had underobservation showed any disposition to give wingedinsects the slightest quarter. If the outermost. MALE YELLOW WAGTAIL. victim in a row held between the mandiblesmanaged to wriggle itself free, and fell into thegrass below, it was instantly followed and re-covered. If a fly of any size passed incautiouslyoverhead it was pursued and invariably caughtby a dexterous vertical flutter. Although the black-headed gull is a gregarious BIRDS OF BROADLAND AND STREAMSIDE. 207 sea-fowl, I have on a good many occasions metwith sohtary pairs breeding on small tarns highup amongst the hills of the Penine Range, wherethey were forty or fifty miles away from the the finest colony to be met with inthis country is located at Scoulton Mere, inNorfolk, where the species has bred season afterseason for over three hundred years in unbrokensuccession, in spite of the discouraging fact thatfrom ten to twenty thousand of their eggs arecollected every spring and sold for culinarypurposes. Directly the birds have re-establishedthemselves in their ancient haunt the fact be-comes known to the inhab
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