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INSECT-EATERS 



chrysalis or perfect insects, which, if they were allowed 

 to propagate would result in countless numbers. 



The Blue Tit, not much larger, destroys six and a half 

 million insects in one year. If it bring up a family 

 of 12 to 1 6 young ones, it means that one family of Tits 

 puts about twenty-four million destructive insects out 

 of the power of doing harm. Whoever, therefore, either 

 from cruelty or ignorance, catches or kills these useful 

 little birds does a great injury to the common weal. 



THE RAIDING HAWK. 



The insect world has great power everywhere, and 

 where birds and other insect-eating creatures are 

 destroyed through ignorance there follows the destruction 

 resulting from the ascendancy of these pests which 

 appear, not in tens of thousands, but in millions. 

 Twenty-one years ago any person who had ventured on 

 such an assertion would have been laughed at, but 



