. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. A Woodland Tragedy 79 boughs above the mouldering remains of his own slaughtered brother to await the insects that come to devour him. Then he darts upon ^hem with something of ihe fly-catcher's eagerness, eating them up at once, or flying off with them alive to im- pale in his store- house. In No. 4 we see the female butcher-bird, on her return from a successful chase after prey of greater import- ance. She has caught a harvest- mouse, the tini- est and prettiest of our Eng- lish mammals, and though with- out a license t
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. A Woodland Tragedy 79 boughs above the mouldering remains of his own slaughtered brother to await the insects that come to devour him. Then he darts upon ^hem with something of ihe fly-catcher's eagerness, eating them up at once, or flying off with them alive to im- pale in his store- house. In No. 4 we see the female butcher-bird, on her return from a successful chase after prey of greater import- ance. She has caught a harvest- mouse, the tini- est and prettiest of our Eng- lish mammals, and though with- out a license to hang game, has threaded it through the neck on a branch of hawthorn, as a preliminary to eating it. This enables her to. NO. 4.—THE butcher-bird's WIFE IMPALING A HARVEST-MOUSE. ill i! 11 ;t ,1. , i I 1. 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 Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London : G. Newnes
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