Show i I RECORD I SE LArER WIL Oct 31 A U.-A A Investigation of f a a bird as a-a a a. gormand is IB being made at the tha University oX of 0 Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin by A A. AR R B It Cuba Cahn assistant in jn the zoological lent ical laboratory Tho The bird a Virginia wren is eald said to be the strangest feathered creature over ever held In captivity H Its Iti re remarkable remarkable re- re app appetite Ule and capacity for tor the tha of tugs buSs beetles and even snakes mu Illustrates the trie Al value e which wild birds have havo C In the destruction of ot harmful harmful harm bum ful ul insects This strange bird a small marsh fowl about six Ix inches high and W weighing les lean issi than a halt half pound as ciu tt in a 0 snowstorm snow enow- storm and landed in a street t cent center or near the state capitol A freshman picked It Jt up and took It to the university Tuesday the bird ate amphibian 13 12 gras grae grasshoppers hoppers 12 meal ineal worms 3 water bugs 1 water scorpion three Inches long loner Z 3 small email ono one and one half Inches Ion long 1 stickleback a sort Bort of fish two and one half Inches long 1 caterpillar and 15 nice flies Wednesday It ate in addition to somo some of th the m menu nu o ot the day doy before R t live lire hor- hor note nots 1 crawfish two lon long 1 frog one and one half inches long and 1 gross grass snake eight Inches long In two to days day the bird ate more mor than Its own weight I |