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It will also pick holes in apples left on the ground, and be well enter- 

 tained with the seeds on the head of a sunflower. The blue, marsh, 

 and great titmice will, in very severe weather, carry away barley and 

 oat-straws from the sides of ricks. 



How the wheat-ear and whin-chat support themselves in winter 

 cannot be so easily ascertained, since they spend their time on wild 

 heaths and warrens ; the former especially, where there are stone 

 quarries : most probable it is that their maintenance arises from the 

 aurelias of the Lepidoptera ordo^ which furnish them with a plentiful 

 table in the wilderness. I am, &c. 



