180 BIRDS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO MAN. 



by F. L. Harvey contained more than six hundred insects, — 

 gnats, beetles, flies, ants, and grasshoppers. Professor Her- 

 rick has found tliat the young are fed largely on firefly beetles. 

 The nighthawk frequently suffers from the thoughtless 

 cruelty of amateur gunners who shoot at tliem as they fly in 

 the air. This is unworthy " sport" for boy or man. These 

 birds are not only Aery useful as insect destroyers, but, as Mr. 

 E. B. Williamson has written, they are also "handsome birds, 

 adding uuich to the twilight beauty of a summer evening as 

 the scattered flocks }jass with easy and graceful flight over 

 fields and woodland.'" 



IHE J.l NA .MOTH 



Slightly reduced. 



