190 Wild Life in Wales 



food, under stress of circumstances, they will scarcely touch 

 grain so long as better is to be had, and for the greater 

 part of the year are nearly as assiduous as Rooks in 

 hunting out and destroying beetles, earwigs, wire-worms, 

 and a variety of other grubs, all of which are more or less 

 inimical to the agriculturist. 



