IDYLLS OF BIRD LIFE 
The greatest consumption takes place in May, when it amounts 
to nearly twenty-four per cent of the food. Grasshoppers are 
„ always acceptable as food, but only during the short time that 
they are most abundant. Certain spiders, snails, angle worms, 
and sOwJjugs are eaten, but they form only a small per cent of 
the diet. 
the matter of the robin’s food it can be seen that, while 
ul beetles are eaten in the early Spring, it is not in 
uction that the bird does harm. A bird whose nat- 
/ of fruit is cut off, usually becomes a pest by preying 
Dm-the cultivated varieties, when obtainable. In some localities 
the conditions are: too many birds of one species and too little 
of the" natural food supply. Under such circumstances a law 
the grower to protect his crop would not be out of 
?re the robin visits, he should at least be tolerated 
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ring of his food. The bird’s wants do not make of 
'■C him an enemy, whom we should seek to starve by cutting off 
*=’^^|is food supply. 
“The sobered robin, hunger-silent now, 
Seeks cedar-berries blue, his Autumn cheer.” 
Lozvell. 
