How to Attract the Birds 



wholesale quantities of grubs and crawling insects. 

 Both agriculturists and graziers count it their very 

 useful ally, and it is so considered throughout 

 Europe. The worst that can be said of it is that 



Starling before his speckles have worn off. (Mounted specimen) 



it occasionally pilfers small fruits, but never so much 

 as the robin. 



With extraordinary precision, great ilocks of 

 .starlings, numbering sometimes hundreds of birds, 

 wheel around through the air, close ranks, spread 

 out again, rise and descend, as if the regiment were 

 a single living thing. This is their usual evening 

 performance before settling to roost in their native 

 land. At their present rate of increase, it will not 

 be long before they can engage in similar manoeu- 

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