42 STRA Y FEA THERS FROM MANY BIRDS. 



rushed recklessly to death and paradise against the 

 muzzles of our fatal martinis. Other bird scavengers are 

 the Ravens, and Crows, and Storks, all common birds 

 in the neighbourhood of cities in the warm parts of the 

 world. They live on all kinds of refuse, which is allowed 

 by the dirty indolent inhabitants to putrefy at their very 

 doors ; and even in more temperate lands, the Raven and 

 the Carrion Crow are very useful in this respect. It is 

 much to the credit of the inhabitants of these warm 

 climates, to afford protection to such useful birds, either 

 by law or otherwise. Many an English landowner and 

 farmer might take a lesson from such a practice, and 

 hold forth a protecting hand to the birds of his domain, 

 instead of allowing them to be indiscriminately and 

 wantonly murdered at every opportunity. 



We have endeavoured to show, in the small amount of 

 space at our command, the manifold uses of birds, both 

 commercially and economically. We have reviewed the 

 principal uses to which man in his arts and manufactures 

 has applied the birds of the world. We have shown how 

 they supply him with an abundant and nutritious store 

 of food ; how they assist in clothing him ; how they 

 furnish him with a great variety of ornament and song, 

 amusement and sport ; how they carry his messages 

 with a speed second only to that of electricity ; and 

 above all, how they assist him in gathering the harvests 

 of the earth and protecting its vegetable life ; and lastly, 



