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birds showed that grubs, and grubs alone, were 
what they were in search of. 
In the same way they dispose of a consider¬ 
able number of insect peSts that frequent the 
trees. Our wild trees produce practically no 
fruit, so that in the winter and early spring all 
the birds have to live upon is insect life. 
Starlings are energetic foragers, and a thin or 
emaciated bird is rare. As a rule, they are 
quite fat, and their glossy plumage indicates 
the perfection of health. 
On the other hand, they are such free and 
persistent breeders that they will some day 
find food scarce; then, being omnivorous, they 
will eat whatever they can get. The native 
birds which nest in holes, such as the parrots, 
cockatoos, and laughing jackass, are being 
driven away. I have seen several of the latter 
so persecuted that they have gone away and 
nested elsewhere. The laughing jackass is a 
good fighter himself, and has an awesome bill, 
but the number of the starlings beat him, and 
he usually retires discomfited in the competi¬ 
tion for a nesting hole. But so numerous are 
the starlings that hundreds are unable to find 
nesting places, and so do not breed at all. Sev¬ 
eral times I have picked up eggs in and around 
my watering-trough, dropped by birds which 
had no nests. 
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Apart from man. the -starling here has few 
enemies. The dashing falcon and the brown 
hawk account for a few, and at night two 
species of owl beat the hedges and take con¬ 
stant toll of them. The number killed in this 
way is, however, almost negligible, so that prob¬ 
ably in a few years’ time we shall have starlings, 
at least in the southern portion of the conti¬ 
nent, as numerous as sparrows. 
A WOMAN WHO ANGLES. 
“We are leaving next week to do some fly¬ 
fishing on the Florida coast,” a young married 
woman who accompanies her husband on all 
his hunting and fishing trips told a Sun re¬ 
porter. “Oh, yes, almost every variety of fish 
on the Florida coast will rise to a fly. I have 
taken ,as many as a dozen varieties m the passes 
between Cedar Keys and Cape Sable. 
“Some can be caught at about every season 
of the year, but I have heard that all varieties 
are more plentiful late in the spring. We go 
down just any time the fishing fever strikes my 
husband, and so far we have always found all 
the fish we could handle. At times they require 
more coaxing than at others, but you can al¬ 
ways catch them if you will do the coaxing. 
Sometimes we take a light Canadian canoe 
and paddle out through the pass to fish in the 
surf itself. I his is ticklish business, as it is 
hard to keep the canoe at the right angle to the 
breaking waves. I find it pleasanter wading out 
to ray knees and casting for the fish as they 
come in. There is a vast amount of difference 
between standing in the warm surf and wading 
m icy mountain streams, as we do when we go 
by~fismng up here even in summer. 
‘My husband insists that salt-water fish are 
entirely untrained and can never be as good 
sport for the angler as the inhabitants of, our 
mountain streams. Because of this ignorance 
on the part of the fish he never thinks of select¬ 
ing the kind of fly that most sportsmen use 
tor the variety of fish he is looking for on the 
coast of Florida. He just finds out what color 
olfth'c'fly'" fiSh prefers and ® ives i(: - regardless 
The fish will jump for a bit of bright worsted 
as readily as for the most beautiful fly that was 
ever made. Sometimes when a school of 
Spanish mackerel are passing we have thrown 
out just anything we could lay hold of. and al¬ 
ways tour or five jump at it at the same time 
Ut course we are pretty sure to have broiled 
KethT >° r breakfast ’ that is if their sharp 
te ?,th d on t cut through our line. 
SnanGb ™ ba 7 d ’ bowf T er > will never throw for 
JlKd L mackerel. He prefers the ladyfish, 
of tllfi the natives skipjack. I never heard 
tins fish being eaten, though every man I 
is aiw e ,'« „ kn0 ,r 1° f° °» tLTcSist 
s always on the lookout for it. 
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