- * * * A FOOD RECIPE.
A number of correspondents most kindly send the lost recipe for birds Which I asked for last week. The title of the) book is How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds (Witherby, ls. 6d.) by Martin Heisemann. The author recommends the heating of a quantum of fat about one and a-half times in excess of the dry food mixed with it, and the pouring of this, when very hot, over the " food tree." He sets down an ideal menu for insectivorous and graminivorous birds. It consists chiefly of ground bread, meat, hemp, millet, and dried elderberries', sunflower seeds and ants' eggs* ; but there is no 'sort of reason for keeping to these substances. The hook 'is in essence an account of Baron von Burlepsch's spitem of bird preservation, which has still a considerable vogue in Germany. • * * * *
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