224 HABITS OF BIRDS, 



Under such circumstances, it is surely not won- 

 derful, that the parent birds should endeavour to 

 entice their young as soon as they can fly, to take 

 excursions to the particular fields where they expect 

 to find a supply of food ; yet such enticement does 

 not appear to us to constitute training in the proper 

 meaning of the term. 



