Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.—No. 5$. 
Our Ally the Bird. 
The bullfinch, although accused of doing harm to various 
fruit crops, often does good service in pruning the trees, 
and devours thousands of weed-seeds and injurious 
The Part that Birds Play in the Economy of Nature—Showing 
that the Toll they take in Man’s Crops of Grain and Fruit is 
only their Just Wages for Destroying Noxious Weeds and 
Destructive Insects. 
r*RE birds 
f"l the allies 
or the 
enemies of Man the 
Gardener ? 
Do they eat 
mostly caterpillars 
or mostly fruit ? 
Are small 
birds over¬ 
protected 
by the 
Wild Birds 
Protection 
Acts ? 
larvte. 
