SEED-EATERS AND MEAT-EATERS. AT 
When you are outdoors just after sundown, you will 
sometimes see a great many swifts and swallows in the 
air, darting around in great circles. They do not seem 
to be going anywhere or doing anything in particular. 
But you will find that they really have something very 
important on hand. They are eating their late suppers. 
There are tiny insects high up where the birds are 
flying, whole swarms of them, and these make a deli- 
cious supper for the hungry birds. 
ARKANSAS GOLDFINCH. 
The finches, or wild canaries,! as we call them in 
Southern California, are among our commonest birds. 
These birds shell plant-seeds before swallowing them, 
as one can see by watching flocks of them in the sun- 
1 Spinus psaltria and Spinus tristis. 
