. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . red. So expertare they on the wing that no insect is safefrom them, even the swift dragonfly being cap-tured with ease. Unfortunately their erraticflight tempts men to use them for targets, andthis inexcusable practice is seriously diminish-ing their numlicrs, which is deploralile. sinceno birds arc more useful. This species makesno nest, but lays its two spotted eggs on thebare grotmd, sometimes on the gravel roof ofthe city house. The nighthawk is a voraciousfeeder and is almost exclusively sto
. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . red. So expertare they on the wing that no insect is safefrom them, even the swift dragonfly being cap-tured with ease. Unfortunately their erraticflight tempts men to use them for targets, andthis inexcusable practice is seriously diminish-ing their numlicrs, which is deploralile. sinceno birds arc more useful. This species makesno nest, but lays its two spotted eggs on thebare grotmd, sometimes on the gravel roof ofthe city house. The nighthawk is a voraciousfeeder and is almost exclusively stomachs contained from 30 to 50 dif-ferent kinds of insects, and more than 600kinds have been identified from the stomachsthus far examined. From 500 to ants areoften found in a stomach. Several species ofmosquitoes, including Anopheles, the transmit-ter of malaria, are eaten. Other well-knownpests destroyed by the nighthawk are the Colo-rado potato beetle, cucumber beetles, chestnut,rice, clover-leaf, and cotton-boll weevils, bill-bugs, bark beetles, and squash bugs. 18. HoRNClJ Arkansas Kincbird 1*> MAGPIE (Pica pica hudsonia) Length, from alxjut i<S to 21 inches. Theblack head and liody and the white belly, whitewing patches, and long tail are distinguishingfeatures. The yellow-billed magpie is smaller,with a yellow bill. Range: A characteristic w-estern from Aleutian Islands and Alaska, cen-tral Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and Win-nipeg Lake south to northern Arizona and NewAlexico, and from the Cascades and Sierra towestern North Dakota and western Texas;resident. There are two species of magpies, the yellow-billed being confined to California, where it isvery local. In general the habits of the twoare similar. Maggie, as this bird is famil-iarly known in the West, possesses dual is beautiful of plumage and adds much tothe interest of the landscape as he flies fromlield to field, his long tail extending behind
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