. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . L -Red-tailed Fig. 2.—Short-eared Owl. FOOD OF NESTLINGS. 49 bunt out these insects when they nre not abundant ana even when theyare rare. At the time of the foregoing observations of orchard orioles,house wrens, and grasshopper sparrows, caterpillars and grasshopperswere comparatively scarce; yet the parent birds, though they choseinsects for their own eating from more abundant species, hunted farand wide for these rare ones to feed their. }^oung. At Marshall Hall

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