TICKLE-BIEDS AND THE COCCINELLID^ 



IX a town where untrained observation rages, 

 so the story goes, an elderly ladj^ met an 

 acquaintance in a shady avenue and asked her : 

 " Do yon know anything about birds"? " 

 "No," said the other; "I 'ni soiTy, but I 

 don't." 



"Sorry! Oh, you 're such a relief! I just 

 met Mrs. C, and she grasped my hand, gazed 

 upward, and exclaimed : 'Oh, did you hear that 

 peifectly lovely spike-beaked, purple-eyed 

 tickle-bird r 



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