Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 107
ingularlyenough, the young birds in the nest are moreravenous than their elders. Cases are common where birds have been ob-served to eat half their weight in worms andinsects in the course of a day, and it is a matterof record that a young robin ate nearly twice itsweight in cutworms and earthworms… … A RUSTIC BIRD-B,\TH. birds consume numberless mosquitos and suchother disease-breeding insects as annually collecta toll of death among cattle. According to theAmerican Naturalist, the examination of thestomach of a night-hawk revealed five hundredmosquitos—indicating a tremendous slaughteramong…
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