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author’s account of the habits of the ‘Poor Crow” may be the cause 
of many being destroyed at certain seasons of the year, his account 
of the food of the Robin will undoubtedly be the saving of the lives of 
thousands of these, by some, most loved, and by others, most perse- 
cuted of birds. We extract the following from the account of the hab- 
its of the Robin :— 
Perhaps none of our birds are more unpopular with horticulturists than this; and I 
will here give the observations of different scientific men, and my own, to show that the 
rej e bir 
enetrate se 
bly ten robins, for one of all others, thus pyta him; and, ign res ` these birds which 
he has opened a hi 
were unripe; on the contrary, it was all through the se ason. His pees is surrounded with 
scrub-oaks huckle Perren These latter were loaded witb fruit, which was easier 
access to the birds than the worms; T no: ne was fo i d in them. ae say 3 suey puna 
from all quarters to — his silkworms. th 
birds together. He said that, in = ojiin, if the birds TOS all killed o TE 
would be entirely loua "To tes 
re; hem, he placed on a iws eriat near his door two thousand of gip ox 
pill the ay 
og 
the be 
was easily acce go but they preferr ee! we worms, Why use the 
young of these, as w as those of most other bi alge i be fed on animal food. Earth- 
worms assist m ne ay at te often birds like the Robin, Cate Thrush, 
etc., get these? th hey go to 
the subsoil, out of the Arar of birds; and it is not necessary here e to say what pamaos 
of the time the ground is very dry through the eraren Caterpillars, grubs of various 
kinds, and insects, possi constitute the chief food of these birds; and of t r- 
pillars , and most aa nil of course, the 
larger proportion, 
In fact, the Thrush rid the surface of the soil of noxious 
often pursued by most other — The warblers capture the insects that prey 
eg: eas h the 
Pah on amii 
r y th f the earth ge pns nearly all kinds of grubs, 
Caterpillars, and worms that live upon the greensward and cultivated soil, and large 
quautities of crickets and grasshoppers before they have become perfect insects. The 
grubs of locu: tee r the 
fruit and crawl about ta ge of new iselters ana ‘those su subt 
cutwo: at come out o: yal g + 
erly devoured by the ue and other Thrushes. emerge Sow ie soil 
during the night to seek for food; and the Robin, whieh is one of the mesa birds to = 
oad in the morning, is very diligent at the dawn hese verm 
fore they have - back into aptae retreat, The sabes ‘of these ake oo 
immense...“ ipe l cornfields,” sa s Dr. Harris, * ‘are sometimes laid waste by 
by the plough 
hoe, and their en em m the soil; apple-worms, when they leave the 
t pape w yae e ter: rranean caterpillars, the 
n E a i par 
