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A deer, with still smaller rudiments at the sides of its double foot, leads in the comparative series to the camel with a cloven hoof devoid of any such relics. We must pass with only brief mention the lower orders of mammalia, like the insect-eating forms to which armadillos and ant-bears belong.
When we strike the birds, we hurt ourselves. The protection of our insect-eating and seed-eating birds is a cash proposition, protect or pay. Were I a farmer, no gun ever should be fired on my premises at any bird save the English sparrow and the three bad hawks. Any man who would kill my friend Bob White I would treat as an enemy.
He takes his name from the fact that he dashes about at twilight and in cloudy weather like a Hawk; but his broad, shallow mouth is only suitable for insect-eating, like his cousin's, the Chimney Swift's, and the beak is equally small and feeble, not at all like the strong hooked one of a cannibal bird. Look overhead!" "There are two light spots like holes through his wings," said Rap.
I have draped a big pile of bubbles around the beak of an insect-eating bird, and watched it shake its head and wipe its beak in evident disgust at the clinging oily films.
The animals at best were clumsy, poorly-endowed creatures, with hardly more intelligence than our alligators. The little thread of higher life begun in the Microlestes and Dromatherium, the little insect-eating mammals of the forest, is visible all through this time.
It will be one of your duties to study the little brute, and you may make a great discovery, for instance, it has been discovered that the mosquito dislikes certain colours. Why? It may be that he would show more distinctly on one colour than on another, and so fall an easy victim to an insect-eating bird.
Conceited theorists! it has never occurred to them, that the victims of the farmer's fowling-piece the birds that eat corn would not touch an insect if they were starving! The farmer does not make war on the insect-eating birds.
Once he stopped in the middle of his song, looked keenly at a corner of the ceiling, and after a swift flight there, he returned with a spider in his beak; one can well believe what good helpers the insect-eating birds must be to the gardener, by destroying countless hosts of minute caterpillars and grubs that would otherwise prey upon the garden produce.
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