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| | Birds: The Night Hawk |
 | | Its food consists mainly of insects, such as flies and mosquitoes, small beetles, grass-hoppers, and the small night-flying moths, all of which are caught on the wing. |
 | | The favorite haunts of the Night Hawk are the edges of forests and clearings, burnt tracts, meadow lands along river bottoms, and cultivated fields, as well as the flat mansard roofs in many of our larger cities, to which it is attracted by the large amount of food found there, especially about electric lights. |
 | | During the heat of the day the Night Hawk may be seen resting on limbs of trees, fence rails, the flat surface of lichen-covered rock, on stone walls, old logs, chimney tops, and on railroad tracks. |
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