Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — KILLED BY A BEECH NUT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILLED BY A BEECH NUT.

l’rcullnr Aoolilrnt Which Elided the Life of it Chiltlncli. There have been Instances of deer meeting death by having their antlers inseparably locked together dur-

lng a fight, and also of wading hints being captured and slowly killed by tho occupants of bivalve shells on the seashore. The illustration represents the only known example of an animal being killed in this peculiar way. The bird is a chaffinch, and ho has lost his life by peeking his lower mandible through a beech nut that he was vainly endeavoring to open. The shell became tightly wedged ou the beak so that tho unfortunate bird was unable to scrape It off, and death by starvation was the Inevitable result.

CHAFFINC H KILLED BY A BEECH NUT