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rest, and the head is armed with horns an inch long but formi- 

 dable only in their appearance. I have seen these huge insects 



Fig. 115. Brown Thrush feeding a nestling. " The food is placed 

 not simply in the mouth of the young, but well down into the sensi- 

 tive throat." 



measuring four inches from tip of the jaws to the extremities of 

 the folded wings fed to a single bird, and they were swallowed 

 wings and all. The operation is shown at an incomplete 

 stage in figure 116, where the wings of the grampus can be 



