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A COUNTRY READER. 



year collect in batches from over their breeding 

 areas, and these little batches join other batches 



THE STARLING. 



till they collect in huge flocks that no man can 

 number, and fly by certain fixed and well-known 

 routes of coast-lines, mountain chains, and rivers, 

 over seas to the land where the sun shines, and 

 where their insect food can be found in abundance. 



