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BIEDS OF A MAETLAND FARM. 



beetle. May -beetles appear to be relished by the thrasher and are 

 destroyed ■wholesale where the bird is abundant. 



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Pig. 39.— Brown thrasher. 



The house wren {Troglodytes aedon, fig. 40) takes no vegetable food. 

 Twenty stomachs were collected from May to August, inclusive. They 



Fig. 40.— House wren. 



showed the food to have been distributed as fojlows: Grasshoppers and 

 crickets, 27 percent; moths, cutworms, measuring worms, and allied 



