BRITISH BIRDS. 



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titles of corn which are shaken by the winds from 

 the over-ripened ears in the fields. On this clean 

 and simple food they soon become fat, and their 

 flesh is accounted delicious and nourishing. 



The males, of nearly the whole of this tribe, so 

 far as we have been enabled by dissection to 

 ascertain, are furnished with a labyrinth on the 

 wind-pipe; these vary in size, shape, and con- 

 formation in different birds, and by which the 

 distinct species are unerringly marked out. 



