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having made a meal for tabby (es- 

 pecially is the case about town). In 

 the wild it is different. To be sure 

 there are plenty of snares, but the 

 worst ones, fire arms. Man and cats 

 are seldom present and the brood is 

 more often brought through with 

 little or no loss. 



Supposing a Rail should hatch her 

 sixteen or twenty young near a farm 

 house or in a city or town, where a 

 legion of cats and children were at 

 large, but few of that precious brood 

 would come through to grown ups 

 though in the case of Rails, I suppose 

 the cat would be the worst enemy. 

 Many a brood of Barn Swallows have 

 been hatched in the cow stable only 

 to feed some lazy cat, not worth its 

 feed. 



Geo. W. Vos Burgh, 



Columbus, Wis. 



It is estimated that three-fourths of 

 the birds hatched inside the cities, 

 towns and villages of the U. S. are 

 destroyed by cats. Moral, destroy the 

 cats. — Editor. 



Books Received 

 University of California publica- 

 tions Vol. 19 RR, 191-200 Feb. 1919 is 

 a very interesting paper by O. E. 

 Platla, entitled "A muscid Larva of 

 the San Francisco region which sucks 

 the blood of nesting birds." The 

 author gives the result of a seasons 

 investigations and draws deductions 

 based on the observation of sixty 

 three birds' nests and 1844 larvae, to 

 the effect that from 5 to 10 per cent 

 of the nestlings attacked die from loss 

 of blood, while others become so 

 weakened that they fall an easy prey 

 to animal enemies. 



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