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BIRDS OF A MARTLA^^D FARM. 



beetle. May -beetles appear to be relished b}' the thrasher and are 

 destroyed wholesale where the bird is abundant. 



Fig, 39.— Bro-vvn thrasher. 



The house wren {Troglodytes aeclon, fig. ttO) 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 follows: Grasshoppers and 

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



