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procure their food ; thus wagtails keep 

 playing about the iioses ajxd legs of cattle 

 as they feed, in quest of fliies ^nd other 

 insepts which abound near ithose animals ; 

 and great numbers of thepa will follow close 

 to the plough to devour the worms, &c. 

 that are turned up by that instrument. The 

 redbreast attends the gardener when dig- 

 ging his borders ; and will, with great 

 familiarity and tameness, pick out the 

 >yorms aln>ost; close to his spade, 2^ I have 

 frpqueintly seen. Starlings and ynagpie§ 

 very often sit on the backs of sheep and 

 deer to pick out their ticks. MaiikwicK; 



WRYNECK. 



Thesp birds appear on the gr^ss-plots 

 and walks ; they walk a little as well as 

 hop, and thrust their bills into the turf, 

 in quest, I conclude, of ants, which are 

 their food. While they hold their bills in 

 the grass, they draw pi|t their prey with 



