There is a passage near the beginning of the book when Harriet has got on the train, and Roy, seeing her with the Whammer, had gone back to his sleeper and looked out of the window.
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The forest stayed with them, climbing hills like an army, shooting down like waterfalls. As the train skirted close in, the trees leveled out and he could see within the woodland the only place he had been truly intimate with in his wanderings, a green world shot through with weird light and strange bird cries, muffled in silence that made the privacy so complete his inmost self had no shame of anything he thought there, and it eased the body-shaking beat of his ambitions.
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Another mention of birds of course, and there is the Roman practice of observing the flight of birds to predict the future, to add to the mythological references.