. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. 482 HAHITS AND VOICE OF THE ]5UNTINa. ! â ; \i-':i' various grass , ospooially tlmso of the stron"or snocioy so flnf if nfi,,. i lu let IS a vciy liivountc article of fuod, as luav W .,.,] IV,,,n ) Z. ! ?sv tei . HL/J . 'r ''">''''^^ ^ is often done to the erops by Jhe'^t^S:!"" tL ^:;n;?::l''' '"' ^"""^'^''^^'^ W hen hanl ,d thv fo,,,!, it is capable ..f doin- no small dauia-e as nnv b,. Irom Mn Knapp's " Journal
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. 482 HAHITS AND VOICE OF THE ]5UNTINa. ! â ; \i-':i' various grass , ospooially tlmso of the stron"or snocioy so flnf if nfi,,. i lu let IS a vciy liivountc article of fuod, as luav W .,.,] IV,,,n ) Z. ! ?sv tei . HL/J . 'r ''">''''^^ ^ is often done to the erops by Jhe'^t^S:!"" tL ^:;n;?::l''' '"' ^"""^'^''^^'^ W hen hanl ,d thv fo,,,!, it is capable ..f doin- no small dauia-e as nnv b,. Irom Mn Knapp's " Journal of a ; " I M-as this day (Januar;: 2^) Sl LS iipnn the extensiv,. iâiâ,y that nii-ht be pro- ilueed by the a-eney of a very insioniticant in strunient, m oliservinj,' the operations (,f tj,,. conunou lUmtin- a bird that seems to liw prnieipally, if not entirely, on seeds, and lin. lis mandibles constrneted in a very poculinr ^.anne,, to aid this established appoinfaei, ot Its hte In tlie winter season it Mill fm|"^'"t the stacks in til,, farinvard, in ciii- pany with others, to feed iijion any corn tint may lie tound scattered about; but, litti inclined to associate Avith man, it iirdm those situations which aro most lone v iui,l distant from the village. It \V(nild hardly'"bo supposed that this lm;d, not larger than a lark, is capable o â¢Ining serious injury; yet I this mornim- ^sed a nek of barley standing in a ,li,. tait held, en irely stripped of its thatcliii,. which tins lUinting eilected by seizin^ £ en, ot the strau;, and deliberately drawin It out, to search tor any gram the ear ye contain; the base of the rick Lea,. entirely surroniuled by the straw, one end vesting against the ground, the other against the mow, as It slid down from the suimiiit. ad so completely was the thatching puiy oil, that the immediate renewal of the cover urame neees^up^ The sparrow and other buds burrow into the stack, and pilfer the c-
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