FOOD OF VARIOUS ANIMALS AND BIRDS 



MYUAKS. 



Hard-boiled Qgg, potatoes boiled, carrot boiled, and 

 boiled rice ; the above chopped up and mixed together. 

 Fruit, grapes, bananas, ripe apples, pears, or any kind of 

 fruit, now and then a little raw meat, mealworms, and 

 other insects. In fact, they will eat almost any kind of 

 food, but salt food or fat must be avoided. 



MACAWS. 



The macaws eat Indian corn and other seeds, biscuits 

 soaked or otherwise, nuts, fruit, avoiding fat or salt meal. 

 Macaws require water. 



PELICANS (TELICANUi). 



They should have a good-sized pond to wash and feed 

 in. If, however, it is not convenient to feed them in the 

 pond they will take the food out of a tub or pail of water. 

 The pond should be supplied with clean water, as the 

 beautj' of the bird depends upon being perfectly clean. 

 They eat rather a large quantity of fish ; feed them once a 

 day, each bird having five or six pounds of fish. 



Stale or stinking fish is dangerous, and all fish must be 

 carefully examined for fear of fish-hooks. Many fish-eating 

 animals are killed by the hooks sometimes left in fish. 



COMMON HERON (ARDEA). 



The herons are not active birds, they require water in 

 which they will wash. 



They are fed on the cuttings of fish and raw flesh ; they 

 will swallow rats, mice, frogs, small birds or, in fact, almost 



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