250 PASSARINE BIRDS. 



Gallinaceous birds, the wood-grouse is supported by 

 the young shoots of the pine in his forests ; but the 

 black and red grouse live upon berries found on 

 the moor, the seeds and tops of the heath; the 

 partridge upon seeds in the field, blades of grass 

 or of corn ; the pheasant upon mast, acorns, 

 berries from the hedge or the brake. The bustard 

 is content to live upon worms alone, found in early 

 morning upon downs and wide extended plains, 

 where none dispute his right or compete with him, 

 but one species of plover. The doves make their 

 principal meals in open fields, upon green herbage 

 and seeds. The stare again feeds upon worms and 

 insects, but in places remote from the bustard, nor 

 does he contend with the rook, or the daw, but 

 takes his meat and is away. 



The Passarine birds, indeed, are remarkably dissi- 

 milar in their manner of feeding. The missel-thrush 

 will have berries from the misseltoe, or seeks for in- 

 sects and slugs in wild and open places, the heath or 

 the down. The songthrush makes his meal from the 

 snail on the bank, or worm from the paddock ; but 

 the blackbird, though associating with him, leaves 

 the snails, contenting himself with worms from the 

 hedgeside, or berries from the briar or the bush. 

 The fieldfare consumes worms in the mead or 

 haws from the hedge. The cross-bill will have 

 seeds from the apple, or cone of the fir the green- 

 finch, seeds from the uplands, or door of barn, or 



