206 A COUNTRY READER. 



The following birds are always beneficial : 

 swallows, house martins, sand or bank martins, 

 swifts, ow r ls, cuckoos, goat sucker, night jar, tree 

 creeper, nuthatch, wrens, larks ; all sharp-beaked 

 singing birds, namely, nightingale, redstart, robin, 

 grasshopper- warbler, linnet, wagtail, goldcrest; 

 all the tits, and peewits. 



THE WEEN. 



The following are usually beneficial, but under 

 exceptional circumstances may do some harm : 

 thrushes, starlings, chaffinches, and bullfinches. 



The kestrel hawk and buzzard being destroyers 

 of field voles are in the main useful. 



The magpie and jay, birds that are closely 

 related to the crow, are said to be more harmful 

 than useful, but it should be remembered that, 

 although they eat the eggs and young of use- 



