THE FOOD HABITS OF NEBRASKA BIRDS. 



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grain and fruit together amount to twenty-five per cent, the re- 

 maining fourteen per cent being principally poison ivy, sumac, 

 juniper berries, polygonum, clover, pigweed, mullein and rag- 

 weed seeds, and acorns. 



THE SAPSUCKER. 



For final consideration we have the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 

 {Spliyi'apicus varius) a species accused of doing harm and not 

 without some reason. Fortunately this species is quite un- 

 common in Nebraska, and is found only as a migrant, so that 

 very little harm indeed is ever done here. Yet it is inter- 



YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER. 

 F. E. L. Beal, Bull. No. 7, 1895. 



