. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . F13. 1 .—Red-tailed -Short-eared Owl. l-uui) OF NESTLINGS. •!. hunt out these insects when they are not abundant ana even when tIn• \uiv 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 chosebisects for their own eating from more abundant species, hunted farand wide for these ran1 ones to feed their young. At Marshall Hall

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