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have any place else to go; so I waited until the young Wrens were about ready 

 to leave the nest and lowered the pole, took the bird-house off and set it on the 

 fence-post. I was afraid the old Wrens would coax the young to leave the nest, 

 but they didn't. It was a change of about ten feet lower altitude, but the old 

 Wrens fed the young while I took photographs of them. 



July 26 and 27, 191 5, I took a record of the food fed by this pair of Wrens, 

 the time between every insect fed, and the average number of insects fed in 

 the given time. It reads as follows: 



Morning, Beginning at Sunrise 



Insects fed Time, min. 



1. Cabbage- worm and Grasshopper 



2. Green cricket 2 



3. Miller yi 



4. Miller 4 



5. Pupa 2 



b. Grasshopper yi 



7. Grasshopper 7 



8. Grasshopper lyi. 



9. Pupa 5 



10. Moth 4 



11. Moth 2 



12. Pupa 2 



13. Small bug 3 



14. Moth 1^2 



IS- Fly 3K 



16. Moth K 



17. Moth 4/^ 



17 times in 45 >^ 



RviiNiNG, Beginning at 5:30 

 Insects fed Time, min. 



1. Miller 



2. Green cricket 2 



3. Cabbage-worm J^ 



4. Pupa 4 



5. Spider 2 



6. Green cricket ]/i 



7. Grasshopper yi. 



8. Daddy-longlegs 7 



9. Daddy-longlegs i^ 



10. Grasshopper 5 



11. Miller 4 



12. Moth 2 



13. Moth 3 



14. Green cricket 2,^2 



15. Green cricket zyi 



16. Snail yi 



17. Grasshopper yi 



18. Daddy-longlegs ]/i 



18 times in 4°/^ 



