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Cuckoos eat chiefly the hairy caterpillar, 
the larvee of the apple-tree moth. The 
Woodpeckers hunt for the larvee of bee- 
tles, which live in the trunks of the trees. 
Chimney Swallows feed largely on small- 
winged insects, and the Night Hawk eats 
thousands of mosquitoes. The Vireos live 
wholly on insects, and the Finches and 
the Sparrows, though the adults live on 
seeds, feed their young with soft larve. 
Watch the Robin as he hops over our 
garden beds, or our lawns. He stands in 
a listening attitude, perks his- head 
knowingly to one side and the other, and 
in an instant moreis pulling up an earth- 
worm or a fine fat cutworm. He steals 
our strawberries and poaches our ripest 
cherries; but, furgive him for that, for he 
pays well for the fruit that he takes. 
Bradley says that a pair of Sparrows 
will destroy more than three thousand 
caterpillarsa week. Wilson declares that 
a Blackbird will destroy fifty grubs a day, 
and Flagg has counted seventeen cater- 
