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sticks out bis feathers all over bis body 
and seems to sink bis bead way down on 
bis chest. 
His food is cheese, fried cakes, butter, 
cottage cheese, nuts of any kind and 
meat. He prefers the latter cooked. He 
will eat raw lemons, but will not eat 
oranges, peaches or pears. He loves 
apples, celery, potatoes, raisins, milk and 
roots; but of all foods, hemp seeds are 
his staple diet. For medicine we give 
him West India peppers or horse-radish. 
In the summer we give him pieces of 
earth with grass roots in it. All the year 
around he has sand or dirt of some kind. 
He catches all the spiders about the 
house and sees them so far away. For in¬ 
stance, one day there was a tiny red spi¬ 
der (about the size of a pin head) on the 
window sill; he saw the tiny thing from 
across the room and went and got it. 
He will also eat flies of any description 
and even mosquitos. 
Birds of Putman County, III. 
List of one hundred and forty birds ob¬ 
served in Putnam County, Illinois, by 
Sidney S. S. Stansell, Tonica, Ill. The 
last two were observed in Chicago on 
Lake Michigan: 
Canada Goose Turkey Vulture 
Chickadee Hermit Thrush 
White-breasted Nuthatch 
Cardinal Bartramian Sandpiper 
Am. Rough-legged Hawk 
Red-tailed Hawk Green Heron 
Myrtle Warbler Slate-colored Junco 
Tree Sparrow Spotted Sandpiper 
Am. Robin Am. White Pelican 
Great Horned Owl Red-shouldered Hawk 
English Sparrow American Osprey 
Bob-white Chimney Swift 
Prairie Hen Kingbird 
Pintail Duck Bank Swallow 
Northern Flicker Catbird 
Prairie Horned Lark Downy Woodpecker 
Song Sparrow Black Tern 
Bluebird ScarPet Tanager 
Mourning Dove Prothonotary Warbler 
Bronzed Grackle Northern Yellowthroat 
Wood Pewee Warbling Vireo 
Herring Gull Nashville Warbler 
Ring-necked Duck Tennessee Warbler 
Bald Eagle Grasshopper Sparrow 
Buffle-head Duck Golden Plover 
Green-wunged Teal Night Hawk 
Lesser Scaup Duck Magnolia Warbler 
Hooded Merganser Yellow Warbler 
Black and White Warbler 
Hooded Warbler Worm-eating Warbler 
Tree Swallow Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
Red-headed Woodpecker 
Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird 
Great Blue Heron Bobolink 
Wood Duck Olive-backed Thrush 
Clav-colored Sparrow 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
Cedar Wax wing 
Am. Sparrow Hawk 
Blue-gray GnaJcatcher 
Yellow-breasted Chat 
Kingfisher 
Killdeer 
Bald pate Duck 
Swamp Sparrow 
Am. Goldeneve 
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Fox Sparrow 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
Golden Eagle Cliff Swallow 
Double-crested Cormorant 
Green-crested Flycatcher 
American Coot Purple Martin 
Field Sparrow Red-eyed Vireo 
Loggerhead Shrike Black Rail 
American Crow Crested Flvcatcher 
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Blue Jay Dickcissel 
Am. Goldfinch Palm Warbler 
Hairy Woodpecker Whip-poor-will 
Barred Owl Sora (Rail) 
Screech Owl Cerulian Warbler 
Mallard Duck Baltimore Oriole 
House Wren Traill’s Flvcatcher 
