Show STRANQi ACCIDCNTS TO UIRDS An Irish naturalist once observed a 1 ilumlln acting In n very curious manner on the seashore Tho bird would alight then fly a abort distance then alight again violently shaking Its head Around A-round lump appeared fastened to Hi beak It turned nut that tho bird bad Innocently attempted to Investlgato a cockle which It had found open Tho shell had closed on Ira bill A poor 111110 cbaltln wa found dead near Kpiora with Its lower mandible so firmly Imbedded the eholl of n beechnut beech-nut that It had been unable to extricate extri-cate It and bad died of starvation A hen pheasant was observed by n sportsman to bo flying around and around In a wild manner On being shot It was discovered to rave a large oak leaf Impaled upon Its beak In such a way aa to totally obscure Its vision Herons sometimes choke themselves by attempting to swallow large trout An elder duck has been killed by nt lempHng to swallow n toad A king flutter was once found which could not fly on account of having n young pike stuck In BI throat Some hunters removed re-moved Ibo Sat and tho bird flew away unhurt Hint that employ hair In the building build-ing ot their nest coma to Brief In strange wrya A gentleman who Ia scsaed several fall noticed a small bird entangled In tho tall of one of his colts It had evidently been on a search for hair and had become ensnared Case ot birds getting their feel entangled en-tangled In wool or string are wall known nnd death usually ensues It human hu-man help Is I not forthcoming In tbo spring of the year the dead leaves ot pampas gross dry fall to the ground and curl up like ihavlnga from a carpenters bench A correspondent of an English paper mentions a robin which had accidentally gotten ono of these pieces curled so tightly around Its neck that It could not feed and so starved to death |