. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . lendidsinger. Not infreciuently indeed its song istaken for that of its more famed cousin, themocking bird. It is partial to thickets and getsmuch of its food from the ground. Its searclifor this is usually accompanied by and scattering of leaves; wdience itscommon name. Its call note is ,a sharp soundlike the smacking of lips, which is useful inidentifying this long-tailed, thicket-hauntingbird, which does not much relish close brown thrasher is not so fond of fruit asthe catbird and
. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . lendidsinger. Not infreciuently indeed its song istaken for that of its more famed cousin, themocking bird. It is partial to thickets and getsmuch of its food from the ground. Its searclifor this is usually accompanied by and scattering of leaves; wdience itscommon name. Its call note is ,a sharp soundlike the smacking of lips, which is useful inidentifying this long-tailed, thicket-hauntingbird, which does not much relish close brown thrasher is not so fond of fruit asthe catbird and mocker, but devours a muchlarger percentage of animal food. Beetlesform one-half of the animal food, grasshop-pers and crickets one-fifth, caterpillars, includ-ing cutworms, somewhat less than one-fifth,and bugs, spiders, and millepeds comprise mostof the remainder. I!y its destruction of theseand other insects, which constitute more than60 per cent of its food, the thrasher muchmore than compensates for that portion (aboutone-tenth) of its diet derived from Photosraph by L. W. Erownell ilothiir is taking no ciiancis uf iiivk little one spill on its cleandress: a brown tiikasiter feeding its young 43
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