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Third, the extreme heat of the thirtieth seemed to make the 

 parent very sluggish as she did practically nothing but sit 

 in the bushes during the greater part of the day. During 

 the first two days of the feeding activity, the female gave a 

 soft call as she approached the nest with food. At this call 

 every head came up. At the end of the second day this call 

 was practically discontinued and the nestlings had learned to 

 detect her approach by the shaking of the bushes. 



4 21 20 12 

 4 3 3 2 



1 

 11 

 4 

 5 

 3 

 2 

 2 



2 



6 



3 



5 



3 .. 



2 6 



16 



7 

 5 

 3 



26 



5 

 5 



2 



TABLE III. 



Food Given to Nestlings 

 Insects Fed 21 22 23 24 25 



Unidentified 3 



Measuring worms . . 3 



Beetles 1 



Flies 1 



Larvse 2 



Mayflies 



Moths 



Grasshoppers 



Wireworms 



Katydids 



Worms, var. sp 



Spiders 



Dragonfly 



Caterpillar 



Mosquito 



Butterfly 



Cricket 



Raspberry 



Small frog? 



Gooseberry 



IN Nest C. 

 26 27 28 

 17 



1 



2 



5 



5 



6 



7 



6 



27 

 3 

 1 



29 



29 



9 

 13 



4 

 10 



3 

 4 



30 Totals 



17 161 



1 21 



8 55 



99 



52 



42 



35 



40 



5 



9 



21 



17 



6 



8 



i 



3 



11 



8 



1 



1 



Total 10 36 48 64 55 



60 67 111 56 596 



Under table III the unidentified includes those insects so 

 small they could not be identified with certainty, those un- 

 known to the person in the blind, and those so badly mangled 

 as to be unrecognized. All of the beetles were put in one 

 class as the number of each species was very small. Among 

 the 55 beetles fed were recognized may-beetles, click beetles, 



