BENEFICENT GREED.
One of the authentic pleasures of the season is to watch young birds after leaving the nest. Anyone who is at all dis- posed to the heresy that birds are of little service in a garden should be made to watch a family of tits. Their greed is por- tentous ; and they exist almost wholly on offensive insects. I do not fear to be accused of exaggeration in estimating the daily meal of a tit family at the greedy stage at over 1,000 head of noxious creatures per day. The estimate is made after very careful watching of a particular family, both in the nest and for the days immediately succeeding the first flight.
W. BEACH THOhIAS.
[Sir William Beach Thomas will be away for the next two weeks. " Country Life and Sport " will be resumed on his return.—En. Spectator.]
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