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THE FOOD OF ANIMALS 



tion: ''It is impossible ever to weary of Wagtails. We are never 

 altogether without them, yet whenever they present themselves to 

 us we are constrained to give them our attention. . . . They all 



Fig. 356. Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flavd) 



walk, or rather run, instead of hopping, their delicate little legs 

 being often in such swift motion as hardly to be seen as they go; 

 and all feed chiefly on insects largely, I think, on minute beetles 



Fig- 357- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa Belgica] 



and love our British streams and meadows for the never-failing 

 abundance of food they find there." 



The sea-shore is a favourite resort of many birds besides the 



