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Both birds now began to bring an abundance of insects and 

 fruit, as if making up for lost time. The female came with 



Fig. 73- Female Catbird bringing in a large limp dragon-fly 

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two cherries in her bill and promptly gave one to each of the 

 birds. Then a grasshopper was served, and still again a dragon- 

 fly, with blue body and spotted wings (the Libellula pulchella). 



