



ee BIRDS. ae 
In our. -pardens they are confidered as very de= 
“fruive, not only injuring the young buds of 
aiels, which they carry to their magazine, | 
Fruit, however, i is not the only food of the Blue 
pont, like other birds of the fame fami ily; it 
feeds on infedts and carrion, and upon the dead 
- bodies of little birds: it takes off their fefh with — 
“fo much exactnefs,” that it has been propofed to. 
- give them their little carcafles’to anatomife. This 
Minute bird i is remarkable for the courage, indeed 
‘lhe fury, with which ijt aflaults the owl. 
~ It does not always, (like moft of the Titmoule 
3 genus), pierce hempteed with the point of its 
bill, but lometimes breaks them between t the man-. 
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on a ae makes her neft in holes of walls, or 
_ trees, warmly lined with feathers, and lays from 
@ tight to twenty eggs. She is fuppofed to Jay but 
Shee in a feafon, unlefs fhe has been induced to 
- Sotfake her Gr neft, and this the is very apt to 
00, if the egos be touched ; but when once the 
r Young are hatched, fhe » defen them “ great 
Be Courage, | . 
Th the winter they frequent the aleiehbourkeot 
-fhoutes, with others of their cenus, but with- 
ay at a appearance of union, or attachment. 
he Though 


_ trees, but taking off the fruit with fingular ad- 
