The Food of Birds. 
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Table of the Food of the Brown Thrush. ( Harporhynchus rufus, L.) 
Concluded. 
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II 
! March 
April 
| May 
June 
>■ 
3 
August 
II *id9S 
0 
O 
Nov. 
0 
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a 
Total 
Ratio of each element 
to whole of food. 
Number of specimens . . 
14 
14 
15 
7 
12 
2 
64 
Kinds of Food. 
Number of specimens and ratio in which 
each element of food was found. 
Cherries 
.01 
3 
•15 
.04 
4 
1 
34 
2 
2 
21 
1 
1 
.03 
.01 
.01 
.21 
.01 
t 
. 16 
t 
t 
E Iderberries 
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1 
VI. Seeds and Grain. 
Acorns 
12 
.41 
2 
.06 
7 
1 7 
9 
.18 
1 
. 12 
Is 
Oats 
2 
.01 
Corn 
Wheat 
9 
•34 
1 
.01 
6 
• 17 
1 
. 12 
,5s 
Buckwheat 
1 
t 
Percentages for each month. 
Beneficial elements 
9 
21 
70 
14 
49 
37 
74 701 ifi 
33 
26 
4 i 
Injurious elements 
Neutral elements . 
25 | 
40 
13 24I 
17I 40I 
Turdus mustelinus, Gm. Wood Thrush. 
The remaining members of this family are much less 
important than the preceding species, and their food is 
of relatively little interest. I shall therefore treat them 
much more briefly, especially as I have comparatively 
few specimens of them. The wood thrush is essentially 
a woodland bird, but occurs not infrequently in groves 
and gardens and in other situations where trees and 
shrubbery .are accessible. It reaches central Illinois in 
April, and retires usually in October, spending its winter 
in the Southern States. I have studied the food of out 
twenty-two specimens of this species, ranging from 
