Latin Prayers not Fit for Irishmen/Instinct of Birds
INSTINCT OF BIRDS.
When the Lapwing wants to procure food, it seeks for a worm's cast, and stamps the ground by the side of it with his feet; somewhat in the manner we have often done when a boy, in order to procure worms for fishing. After doing this for a short time, the bird waits for the issue of the worm from the hole, who, alarmed at the shaking of the ground, endeavours to make its escape, when he is immediately seized, and becomes the prey of this ingenious bird. The lapwing also frequents the haunts of moles. These animals, when in pursuit of worms on which they feed, frighten them, and the worm in attempting to escape, comes to the surface of the ground where they are seized by the lapwing. The same mode of alarming his prey has been related of the gull.
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