BIRDS.

A distinguished naturalist obligingly communicates the subjoined table

and prefatory remark.

_For the Every-Day Book._

A notion prevails that birds do great injury in gardens and fields, and

hence rewards are frequently offered to induce boys and others to kill

them in spring. The notion and the practice are erroneous. A gentleman

of long experience in horticulture, has ascertained that birds, in

general, do more good by destroying vermin than they do harm by the

little fruit and grain they consume; an entire district in Germany was

once nearly deprived of its corn harvest, by an order to kill all the

rooks having been generally obeyed.