Dans le Berkshire champs . t. Une seconde plus tard le gravier-banque re-sonné un cri sauvage de la douleur que j'ai retiré une tornand doigt saignement. Kingfisher a été mère onu-doubtedly sur le travail ! J'étais fou, et saisissant,mon chat, j'ai creusé sans se soucier de l'exposer. Amoment plus tard et elle s'envola et dehors avec anangry pleurer, et a commencé à faire des cercles autour de passage,alors que dans une chambre légère, dans laquelle le tunnelenlarged à la fin, au milieu d'un ciel mess ofdisgorged à odeur de bois composée de poissons-Os, balances, et, comme la moitié et recouvert de terre délogée bymy spade, avait trois oiseaux de bébé, laid, aveuglé par sud

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In Berkshire fields . t. A second later the gravel-bank re-sounded to a wild yell of pain as I withdrew a tornand bleeding finger. Mother kingfisher was un-doubtedly on the job! By now I was mad, and, seizing my spade, I dug recklessly to expose her. Amoment later and she flew up and out with anangry cry, and began to circle around overhead, while in a slight chamber, into which the tunnelenlarged at the end, amid a heaven-smelling mess ofdisgorged pellets composed of fish-bones, scales, andthe like, and half covered with earth dislodged bymy spade, were three baby birds, ugly, blinded bythe sudden light, half dead with the collapse of theirroof. I forgot my injured finger, and was suddenlyovercome by a tremendous pity, a wave of penitence.I think I cried, for even as I watched and tried toscoop the fallen dirt away one of the chicks lay overon its side, apparently dead. I left them and the BY INLAND WATERS 9 distracted mother, and never had the courage to goback to see if they all died. I felt too sure they. The kingfisher is extremely decorative as he percheshigh over pond or river did. It was the first and the las.t kingfishers nestI ever attempted to excavate. Yet the people who stock their streams with i2o IN BERKSHIRE FIELDS fingerling trout have no love for this big, handsome, energetic, and sometimes warrior-like bird. He isextremely decorative as he perches on a limb highover pond or river, watching for the gleam of fishbelow to fall upon; but he is also extremely efficientin getting the fish when he sees it. Still we could illspare the sight of him from our inland waterways, and any close observation of a pair of kingfishersthrough the season impresses you with their sturdy, if sometimes contentious, independence. More thanonce, along the winding Housatonic, I have noticedthat these birds apparently divide up the river intodefinite reaches, each pair of birds taking a reach, and thereafter maintaining it strictly to them-selves and driving off with a great show

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