L'SKI'TL I’.IRDS 
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ants, four l)eetles, a chrysalid, one hundred and ten small Inigs, a 
spider, with a few acorns, small seeds, and a little woody tihre, 
appearently taken by accident with the i^rubs. ddiree-fourths of the 
food of one hundred and forty specimens examined by the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture consisted of insects. Nearly one-fourth con- 
sisted of ants, chieti^y those which were carinp; for ])lant lice, or 
hurrowing- in wood. 
THE CAT BIRD. 
1 he writer has been so forcibly reminded of the beautiful song 
of this bird by the extremely natural a])pearance of the drawing, 
that he is led to include it here as a ])lea for the bird, upon the 
g'round of its cpialities as a songster. 
