While visiting my friend Mr* John E. Thayer at his coun% 
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try place in Lancaster Massachusetts about the middle of August^imo. I 
was surprised to that a dozen or more Kingbirds,which we started 
| from a belt of shrubbery by the roadside, had been feeding there for 
days on the fruit of the arrow wood ( Viburnum dentatum ), Mr. Thayer had 
| repeatedly watched them eating the sm^Ll,dull blue berries with great 
apparent eagerness and relish although they are dry and bitter tl the 
human palate. At length I saw a bird pick one of them from the stem 
and quickly swallow it. On no other occasion that I remember have I 
ever observed a Kingbird eating anything save insects. 
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