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it has eaten. These bones when ejected 

 in the burrow arp carried away from 

 the nest as the birds are very cleanly in 

 their sand house. 



These anglers of the lake and stream 

 are not confined to a diet of fish, though 

 I believe that they prefer minnows to 

 anything else and they are found about 

 streams and lakes at all times. They 

 not rarely pick up the larger insects and 

 they often eat grasshoppers, and I once 

 observed one catch and swallow a small 



frog. It is said that in Arizona and 

 other arid districts, the Kingfishers live 

 mainly on insects and lizards, presum- 

 ably from the lack of suitable waters at 

 certain seasons. It is well that a bird 

 of a fish-eatiug habit can accommodate 

 its ways to the means offered in a desert 

 land. 



MOKRTS GiBBS, M. D. 



(To be Continued ) 



MISS JENNY. 



MK. CHUPES. 



The Dramatis Person^e. 



From "Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny." 



(Copyright, 1901, by The Baker & Taylor Co.) 



