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the pale blue eggs, spotted with black, are 
quickly laid, incubation at once begins, and e<qigwggZ 
very often the first brood of little ones is hatched out 
before March is over. The young birds grow rapidly, and 
ass he fe. 
a few weeks later they may be seen on the garden lawn, 
being not only fed by their parents, but carefully taught 
how to find worms and grubs, and to pull them out of 
their holes for themselves. 
These birds, too, are very fond of snails, which they 
batter against a big stone till their shells are cracked all 
over, and then carefully strip, just as one removes the shell 
from a boiled egg. Each thrush, as a rule, has a stone of its 
own, to which it brings all its victims. In a single garden 
I have found as many as twenty-one such stones, each with 
the remains of from six to thirty victims around it; and 
: sometimes 
Oe | tes oes there are a 
en good many 
more. Add to 
these the num- 
ber of cater- 
pillars, grubs, 
and other 
destructive 
’- insects which 
are devoured 
