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others. It also eats the succulent roots of Silver-weed (see p. 

 79) and other weeds. 



These few birds are merely quoted as examples of those 

 which devour large quantities of weed seeds. The Pheasant, 

 Partridge, Corn Crake, Siskin, Red-poll, and Brambling or 

 Mountain Finch, also do much good in this way. (See also 

 " The Food of some British Birds," R. Newstead, Jour. Bd. 

 Agric., Supplement to vol. xv., 1908-9; The Farmer and the 

 Birds, Edith Carrington, 1898; Manual of British Birds, 

 Howard Saunders, 1899; anc ^ other books on birds.) 



