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Third, that even beyond this they would do us far more harm than 

 they do, and that with one exception, all the year round, if there was corn in 

 the fields and fruit in the gardens for them to prey upon for the remainder 

 of the year, beyond some month in harvest and a month of the fruit season. 



To take the exception first, and a most material exception it is, affecting 

 as it does other thus prevented injuries to our crops and our gardens during 

 the remainder of the year. I allude, of course, to the time or rather the 

 times of the year when the " birds have nests." I say times, for as I have 

 elsewhere had occasion to point out, some of our birds, and those, be it 

 remembered, the ones which are the most destructive in our gardens, namely 

 blackbirds and thrushes, &c., have not only one, but two, three, or even 

 four broods in the year, ll^ow the young of all these birds are fed, I may 

 say exclusively, on insects, and I have before now given the readers of the 

 Times a most remarkable account of the number of times the young of some 

 species are fed day by day. Nay, not only do the insectivorous birds do 

 this, but those which at other times, or even at the same time, are, as to their 

 own food, generally graminivorous, feed their young on insects, caterpillars, 

 and such like. 



(To he continued.) 



LIST OF NOEFOLK DIUEKI AND NOCTURNI NOT MENTIONED 



BY Mr. GUNN. 



By the Eev. T. H. Marsh. 



C. Hyale, At East Dereham. 



V. Antiopa. Once at Mulbarton, also at Marsham. 



A. iris. Near Norwich and near Foulsham. 



T. Tuhi. Cawston, Swannington and Horsford. 



T. quercus. Cawston. Common, mentioned as rare by Mr. Gunn. 



Z. j^gon. Cawston. Common, mentioned as rare by Mr. Gunn. 



L. Corydon. Near Thetford. 



Z. Argiolus. Cawston. Uncommon. 



/S. oceUatus. Not uncommon, Cawston, Dalling, &c. 



S. populi. Not uncommon, Cawston, Dalling, &c. 



B. tilim. Cawston. Not common. 



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