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DURING EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR.
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FOOD OF ADULT SPARROWS.
Their customary food. Their occasional food.
MAY. Corn; vegetable matter; seeds. Young pea-pods and leaves of peas; gooseberry-blossoms and young gooseberries; small beetles; caterpillars of the Brimstone Moth, and White Cabbage butterflies (J. Hawley); turnip-seed (A. Hepburn and R. Lowe); hayseed (C. L. Buxton); sprouts of young barley, half an inch long; pollen of the sycamore tree and apple (Note A, page 17); mangold-wurtzel leaves (B. B. Sapwell).