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procure their food ; thus wagtails keep 

 playing about the noses and legs of cattle 

 as they feed, in quest of flies and other 

 insects which abound near those animals ; 

 and great numbers of them will follow close 

 to the plough to devour the worms, &c. 

 that are turned up by that instrument. The 

 redbreast attends the gardener when dig- 

 ging his borders ; and will, with great 

 familiarity and tameness, pick out the 

 worms almost close to his spade, as I have 

 frequently seen. Starlings and magpies 

 very often sit on the backs of sheep and 

 deer to pick out their ticks. Markwick. 



WRYNECK. 



These birds appear on the grass-plots 

 and walks ; they walk a little as well as 

 hop, and thrust their bills into the turf, 

 in quest, I conclude, of ants, which are 

 their food. While they hold their bills in 

 4:he grass, they draw out their prey with 



