. The birds of Iona & Mull. Birds. LETTER IV. 59 being hatched, and consequently the poor bird sits on them till she gets so exhausted as to be incapable of flying, and so falls alive into the hands of her young tormentors. A young one taken from the nest becomes a useful garden scavenger, destroy- ing all kinds of injurious insects.^ I hope to get some new eggs this season, by setting the boys on the search among the moors over in Mull; but it is not easy to get the people to understand why you want eggs. St John, in his Tour in Sutherland, when inquiring about an eagle's nest of an old s
. The birds of Iona & Mull. Birds. LETTER IV. 59 being hatched, and consequently the poor bird sits on them till she gets so exhausted as to be incapable of flying, and so falls alive into the hands of her young tormentors. A young one taken from the nest becomes a useful garden scavenger, destroy- ing all kinds of injurious insects.^ I hope to get some new eggs this season, by setting the boys on the search among the moors over in Mull; but it is not easy to get the people to understand why you want eggs. St John, in his Tour in Sutherland, when inquiring about an eagle's nest of an old shepherd, breaks out into a lamentation upon the reserve of the Highlanders, " who seem to have a suspicious dislike to giv- ing ; A little sneeshin, or a few inches of tobacco, at once goes to the heart of the old mountaineer; but it must be given in the right way, not as you would throw a beggar a halfpenny, but with such a remark as " Maybe you're out of tobacco to-day, Donald," or " Try this, Sandy, and tell me if it's good or ; The gentle ' Vide VertebrcUe Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, p. 70.— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Graham, Henry Davenport, l825-1872. Edinburgh, D. Douglas
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