THE FOOD OF THE RFD-IIFAI) 



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wild fruit and seeds. The insect food consisted of ants, wasps, 

 beetles, bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, mollis, caterpillars, 



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spiders and thousand-legged worms. Tn the fruit season the 

 Red-Head undoubtedly does considerable damage l«> fruit 



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crops, more by mutilating fruit, perhaps, than by actual loss 



