. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ^^^ THE, UWST. How the Avington fledglings were killed by their jealous parents. By W. H. Hudson, Author op British Birds. TO many of us who take delight in birds, the raven, whether we love it or no,is the most fascinating of feathered beings. Its powerful character impresses the imagination. Certainly the raven has an intelligence almost uncanny in a bird; and a savage spirit too, and power; and a deep human-like voice; and a very long life. These qualities affect the mind and have been the cause of the ravens strange repu
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ^^^ THE, UWST. How the Avington fledglings were killed by their jealous parents. By W. H. Hudson, Author op British Birds. TO many of us who take delight in birds, the raven, whether we love it or no,is the most fascinating of feathered beings. Its powerful character impresses the imagination. Certainly the raven has an intelligence almost uncanny in a bird; and a savage spirit too, and power; and a deep human-like voice; and a very long life. These qualities affect the mind and have been the cause of the ravens strange reputation in?former ages—the idea that:he was something more than a bird; a messenger of doom, an evil spirit, or the spirit of some great dead naan revisiting the scenes of his earthly career., Common all over the country down to the early years of the ninteenth cen-tury, he has now been pretty well exterminated as an inland bird. On the: iron-bound coasts where his\ eggs are comparatively safe,:and in a few wild moun-tainous spots in the interior, he still exists. But it does
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