Four feet, wings, and fins . country. It belongs to the order Incessores,and to the family Fringillidce, The finch and spar-row family feed chiefly upon grain and seeds, accord-ing to the farmer, but naturalists and all keenobservers know they destroy enough and moreinsects to make up for all the grain they eat, and itis the same with most other birds. It has beenestimated that a pair of sparrows, in a single week,while they are feeding their young, destroy aboutthree thousand, three hundred and sixty cater-pillars. Pat now brought out a tiny glass case, carpetedwith moss, with two little bird
Four feet, wings, and fins . country. It belongs to the order Incessores,and to the family Fringillidce, The finch and spar-row family feed chiefly upon grain and seeds, accord-ing to the farmer, but naturalists and all keenobservers know they destroy enough and moreinsects to make up for all the grain they eat, and itis the same with most other birds. It has beenestimated that a pair of sparrows, in a single week,while they are feeding their young, destroy aboutthree thousand, three hundred and sixty cater-pillars. Pat now brought out a tiny glass case, carpetedwith moss, with two little birds mounted side byside on a stout twig, and made to look as if bothwere about to seize a snail that was half-buried inthe moss. 380 KENNY S CHICKENS. •. Beautiful! said Grace. Its for Rosie, said Pat, proudly, and m gointo try my hand on stuffin a pair of squirrels, and iftheyre nice, theyll belong to Mister Frank andMiss May. The little natural history class thanked Pat in abody, and then they took their books and wrote :. Domestic fowls of the order Rasores, familyPhasianidcB. Hawks of the order Carnivora andthe family FalconidcE. Owls, to order Raptoresfamily Strigidcs. Swallows, order Incessores, familyHirundiiiidcB, Sparrows, order Incessores, familyFringillidcs, 381
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