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their tar. and heetles, spiders. miee, shrews, small snakes. lirnrds. or even birds may he required to luring up the halanee.

"In some pistes in the West and South telegraph poles puss fur miles through treeless plains and sm’untms. For lack ot hetter perrhes. the Spatrmv Hmka often use these pairs for resting places. innit which they make short trips to pick .up n gt. - mpper or mouse. which they in t hack to their perch Attitttes. when terns-shoppers are abundant. such a

line or poles is pretty well occupied ht these Hawks. in the vicinity ut Washington. D. c..

remarkahle as it tnn- appear to those who have not interested themselves specially in the matter, it is the esteption not to ﬁnd grasshoppers or erit-kets in the slomm’ils of the 'par» ruw Hawks. even when killed during the months at January and February. unless the glotlnd is Covered with snow, tt is wotnlertul how the birds can discover the haILeon. t-ealerl. semi-durttlnttt inserts. which in culnt so elosely resemble the ground or (hy grass \Vhrthet they are :ttttactt-tl hi a slight movement. nr ti .tinguish the furm of their prey as it

sits tttotiunless. is tiiﬂiuult to prove, hut in nttycasethe acttteness oi their vision is of a char-

acter which we are unable to appreciate. " Feeding un insects so exclusivelt- as the} tin. it is to be presumed that they destroy a

druble nutnher of brtteticial kinds. as wcll as spiders. which they ﬁnd in the samtf Ia- Ilowevet, rxuutiuutiun of thcir stomach contents shows the

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ealities as the gt huppers. number to he so small. compared with tltztt (if the noxious species. that it is hardly worth t-ousitlering.

" In the spring. when new grounder meadow is broken by the plow. they ulten become Very tame it not molested. They ﬂy down. even alighling under the very horses for an in— stant in their endeavor to capture an unearthed mouse or insect."

Stucy Points ior TEachets and students tt-ma

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in )mlt luealtty Ill \l‘iltlt-y > It ttttt touml in your luutity in tine. it l. \‘l' in the lall > Ix tt rare or abundant in your in ctlrk ,0 By mice and other mdlnls? How til Sllﬂlprsililllk'tl hawks? Gtt: some Iznsnnst

thn-s in the stir : t» .l

Where is this Hats-k tuttud ’ when tint-s H .ttrtt-

wink-l.

t-lmnpt t .1 Hawks

Eccliull’ \\'h;u harm h) .tuitttltnt.

mil vim llhllllgu h the suitrmw H tks trtttn l-tet-mt

hast-d un )ultt pt-rwntrtl nit~ur\'.llitlns why the Spanth llnwk (h rltl ht print-mil.

For valuable intormation regarding: Ihc spun-un- Hawks, consult the relerence books . Marsh Hawk.

nametl in Leaﬂet No.

Additional ehpies at this leatlet may he procured ot William Butcher. chairman. 525 Manhattan avenue, Ncw York til}

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