Behaviour of Birds 
quite fearless of man. Two pairs of WHEAT- 
EARS nested, and reared their broods, not far 
from Krithia, in a bank which was constantly 
being plastered with bullets and bursting 
shells (Country Life, 8.11.19). 
More than once a shrapnel shell appeared 
to burst among a flock of birds, but the 
actual damage done could never be ascer- 
tained. On one occasion a sergeant in the 
R.A.M.C. found a LARK incapacitated from 
flying by a slight wound in the wing. It was 
easily caught and kept in an old biscuit tin, 
where it was fed on crumbs of army biscuit 
moistened with water. In a few days the 
wing was healed and the bird released (O0- 
server, 2.1.16). 
ITALY 
The behaviour of the birds on the Italian 
front has not, as far as I know, provoked any 
comment. 
A PIGEON, which as a chick had been blown 
out of its nest and had fallen at the feet of a 
British gunner, was hand-reared and fed by 
him until it became so attached to his bat- 
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