. Nature study and life. Nature study. 348 Ny\.TURE STUDY AND LIFE The first class includes those that are wholly or almost wholly insectivorous : the swallows and martins, wrens, vireos, flycatchers, warblers, cuckoos, night hawks, whip- poor-wills, swifts, and humming birds. We cannot have too many of these birds. All they need is safe homes and water, and they should be encouraged and protected up to the very limit of insect food. We should not attempt. Fig. 13S. Q. K. D. A wild lubin t;inied tu come at call by means of a few meal worms, (f'hotogmph by the author, njoi) to keep one in confi
. Nature study and life. Nature study. 348 Ny\.TURE STUDY AND LIFE The first class includes those that are wholly or almost wholly insectivorous : the swallows and martins, wrens, vireos, flycatchers, warblers, cuckoos, night hawks, whip- poor-wills, swifts, and humming birds. We cannot have too many of these birds. All they need is safe homes and water, and they should be encouraged and protected up to the very limit of insect food. We should not attempt. Fig. 13S. Q. K. D. A wild lubin t;inied tu come at call by means of a few meal worms, (f'hotogmph by the author, njoi) to keep one in confinement for any length of time unless we have an enormous supply of suitable insects, and even then, with some of them, their manner of snapping insects on the wing is so different from that of picking them up from the ground that we could hardly expect to feed them adecjuately or give them sufficient freedom for health. Those birds, however, that do not catch their food on the wing, such as the wrens, vireos, warblers,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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