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THE FOOD OF SPARROWS
| FOOD OF ADULT SPARROWS. | ||
| Their customary food. | Their occasional food. | |
| JUNE. | Corn; vegetable matter; peas; seeds of various sorts. | Gooseberries and other fruit; lettuces (A. Willis); small beetles; mangold-wurtzel leaves (B. B. Sapwell) (Note B, page 18). |
| JULY. | Young wheat, barley, and oats; vegetable matter; seeds of various weeds. | Peas; small beetles; beans (A. Willis); seeds of wild spinach (A. Willis). |
| AUGUST. | Wheat, barley, oats. | Seeds of corn, bindweed, knot grass, etc. (see list, page 9); aphides, small beetles, daddy longlegs (Tipula), caterpillars of Teras contaminana, moth of Crambus culmellus (Note C, page 18) (E. F. Becher and F. Norgate). |
