The Flycatchers are a distinct and important branch of that

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standing army of birds which nature keeps to make war upon the insect hordes that threaten to eat her up.

Their duty is well defined and they keep to it. They hunt for no caterpillars among leaves, nor tap trees for Paradise and Fantailed Flycatchers. grubs, nor rummage about the ground for beetles and worms. There are Others whose office it is to do all these things. The