This bird is virtually omnivorous ; the Andalucian 

 herdsmen and sliepherds declare that the young birds, 

 during their first summer, subsist almost entirely upon 

 insect-food ; but hardly any green thing comes amiss to 

 them, and besides vegetable food of all sorts, they will 

 greedily devour mice, small birds, frogs, lizards, snails, 

 small fishes, and earthworms. 



