BIRD NEIGHBOURS.
You call them thieves and pillagers; but know They are the winged guardians of your farms, Who from the cornfields drive the insidous foe, And from your harvests keep a hundred harms Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man at arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
Longfellow, Birds of Killingworth.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 18, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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70BIRD NEIGHBOURS. Forest and Bird, Issue 18, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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