. The British bird book . very fond of certain 1HH^ffl| noxious insects,more especially of JBB^^SBm leather-jackets, orgrubs of the daddy- ffli|S®w*P^rP^ long-legs. This maybe seen from the fact that no less than 1229 of thesegrubs have been found in the crop of a single pheasant. These birds are found chiefly in large woods, where asupply of water is not far off, and where there are plenty oflow bushes, brambles, etc., to serve as cover. They spendalmost the whole of their lives on the ground, seldom flyingunless alarmed, and roosting in the trees only in the end of April or the
. The British bird book . very fond of certain 1HH^ffl| noxious insects,more especially of JBB^^SBm leather-jackets, orgrubs of the daddy- ffli|S®w*P^rP^ long-legs. This maybe seen from the fact that no less than 1229 of thesegrubs have been found in the crop of a single pheasant. These birds are found chiefly in large woods, where asupply of water is not far off, and where there are plenty oflow bushes, brambles, etc., to serve as cover. They spendalmost the whole of their lives on the ground, seldom flyingunless alarmed, and roosting in the trees only in the end of April or the beginning of Maythe mother bird scratches out a small hollow in the ground, gen-erally under theshelter of a bush oramong long grass,. Ml > \ ^1S\^ 50 in which she lays fromThese are ohve-brown inmarkings. While shevery closely andshe is trodden
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