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warblers, meadow larks, woodpeckers, thriishes; .'i. 

 quail; 2, doves or domestic pij^eons; 1, bullfrog; :{. 

 mice, rats jind insects; 1, opossum; 1. young wood- 

 chuck and remains of wood duck; 2, hair and otlu'i' 

 remains of .small quadrupeds. 



.AT LEAST ONE GOOD TRAIT. 



The Coo|>er's TTawk. sometimes lik<' tlip Sharp- 

 shinned species, visits vards and pnrks in towns and 

 vilhiges in (piest of the English Sparrow . a bird which 

 lias by reason of its pugnacious habits driven many of 

 our native and beneficial song birds fi-om the habita- 

 tifuis of man. 



