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First the great variety of food given to the nestlings and 

 second the insignificant amount of fruit used as food con- 

 sidering its availibility. One cherry and nine blackberries 

 were fed in the two days. This is about 4% or less than 

 half the amount used by a pair of brown thrashers studied 

 by the author^ in the same vicinity in 1912 who fed 8.75^ 

 fruit. 



TABLE II. 

 Nestling Food foe Nest A. 

 Food June 30 



Unidentified 15 



Cricliet 23 



Lai'vfe (motlhi and beetle) 3 



Cutworms 19 



Maybeetleg 4 



Tomato worms 3 



Grasslioppers 9 



Flies 3 



Beetles (except maybettles) 4 



Worms . ., 8 



Spiders 2 



Caterpillars 4 



Maybeetle larvae 7 



Butterflies 1 



Katydid 1 



Wireworm 1 



Cankerworm 1 



Centipede 2 



Cabbage worm 1 



Mayfly 1 



Ant 



Dragonfly 



Blackberry 4 



Cherry 



Total 116 125 241 



The remaining 96% of the food consisted of many insect 

 forms of which the following total 116 or 48.29% : — may- 

 beetles and larvae, cutworms, flies, crickets, grasshoppers, 

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