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2X. -STARLING 
TARLINGS, like rooks, are very useful birds in 
S some ways, but decidedly mischievous in 
others. They are very fond of cherries, for instance, and 
will strip whole trees of their fruit, always preferring 
that of the best quality. But the good that they do far 
outweighs the evil, for during the greater part of the 
year they feed almost entirely upon worms and mischievous 
grubs. Chief among these latter are the wireworms 
and “leather-jackets,’ or grubs of the daddy-long-legs, 
which devour the roots of grass, and are sometimes so 
numerous that as many as a couple of hundred have been 
taken from a single square foot of turf. Early in the 
moming the birds may often be seen patrolling garden 
lawns and meadows, listening intently from time to time, 
and then pulling out the grubs which they have heard 
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