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Show Bird Criminals. A subject which has exercised me this summer has been ar. to what bird It Is with a hill seeiu'ngly 'smaller than a Jay's which plundeis other's nests, breaking and sucking the eggs, says a writer In Country Life. In one small piece of iiedgo I found ono blackbird's and two thrushes' nests all treated In the same way, the threo showing Hmong tin m the wreckage wreck-age of oleve: eggs all similarly pierced and emptied. Tim missel thrush has been suspec-oil of tho offensy and In this case 1 should stipnoso It to ho tho missel thrush If It were not that of a pah- of butcher birds nested In the same hedge. It Is peril ips unjust t-i suspect the butcher bird on no lienor evidence than Its mere proxlmltj to thn scene of the crime and It may be questioned If the shrike would dam to rltlo the nest of either a blackbird or a thrush. A sugisestion which I have not seen made and which t throw out only as a possibility Ik that the culprit Is no burglar but neither more than less than one of tho parent birds themselves, |