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for intervals of eight or ten minutes : the food was green 
caterpillars. 
The Titmouse, 16 times in an hour. 
The comparative weight consumed was as follows : — A 
Greenfinch, provided with 80 grains, by weight, of wheat, in 
24 hours, consumed 79 ; hut of thick paste, made of flour, 
egg, &c., it consumed upwards of 100 grains. 
A Goldfinch consumed about 90 grains of Canary- seed in 
24 hours. 
Sixteen Canaries consumed at the average rate of 100 
grains each, in 24 hours. 
The consumption of food by these birds, compared with 
the weights of their bodies, was about one- sixth ; which, 
supposing a man to consume food in the same proportion to 
his weight, would amount to about 25 pounds for every 24 
hours ! 
