FOOD OF VARIOUS ANIMALS AND BIRDS 
MYUAKS. 
Hard-boiled egg, 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 {PELICANUS). 
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 
beauty 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 {ARBEA). 
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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