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post-box opposite, as he passes, for a robin that 

 lives there. I hope I may flatter myself that my 

 ' leaflet,' the address to boys and girls published 

 by the Selborne Society, may have helped to pro- 

 duce this pleasant change. 



Many larks have come down from the snowy 

 hills, and pick up every bit of green food they can 

 find cabbages, parsley, everything. They do 

 not seem to take any of the various food that is 

 put out for the other birds ; but I have not tried 

 them with grain of any kind. Two were picked 

 up dead in the garden. 



