126 FOOD OF SMALL BIRDS. 



calculation, amounts to 2254 times in a week ; but more grubs than 

 one were usually imparted each time. 



Chaffinches, at the rate of about 35 times an hour, for five or six 

 times together, when they would pause, and not return for intervals 

 of eight or ten minutes : the food was green caterpillars. 



The Titmouse, 16 times in an hour. 



The comparative weight consumed was as follows : A Greenfinch, 

 provided with 80 grains, by weight, of wheat, in 24 hours, consumed 

 79 : but of thick paste, made of flour, egg, &c. , it consumed upwards 

 of 100 grains. 



A Goldfinch consumed about 90 grains of Canary-seed in 24 hours. 



Sixteen Canaries consumed at the average rate of 100 grains each, 

 in 24 hours. 



The consumption of food by these birds, compared with the 

 weights of their bodies, was about one-sixth ; which supposing a 

 man to consume food in the same proportion to his weight, would 

 amount to about 25 pounds for every 24 hours ! 



