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Our Bird Friends. 



birds, and in spite of all the threats and savage 

 bluff a Greenfinch can summon they will, when- 

 ever it suits their fancy, rush in and, seizing a 

 seed, carry it off from beneath the self-ap- 

 pointed owner's verj^ nose. Occasionally a com- 



IVV BERRIES 



panion will turn up, and, alighting on the branch 

 below the sunflower, will cock his head on one side 

 in the most comical Avay, as if asking the bird in 

 possession to throw him down a seed. 



For the Tit family generally we suspend a cocoanut 

 with a piece sawn off" either end ; but I am afraid 

 that the members of the Great or Oxeye species do not 

 give the others much in the way of a chance. It is 

 highly amusing to watch them feeding, one at either 



