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spreading their wings to the sun, and then 

 flying off all together, but soon returning 

 to their former situation. The greatest 

 part of these birds seemed to be young 

 ones. Markwick. 



WAGTAILS. 



While the cows are feeding in the moist 

 low pasture, broods of wagtails, white and 

 grey, run round them close up to their 

 noses, and under their very bellies, avail- 

 ing themselves of the flies that settle on 

 their legs, and probably finding worms 

 and larvcB that are roused by the trampling 

 of their feet. Nature is such an (Econo- 

 mist, that the most incongruous animals 

 can avail themselves of each other ! 



Interest makes strange friendships. 



White. 



Birds continually avail themselves of 

 particular and unusual circumstances to 



