. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . )ing carol, musical and clear, beginning peuo-peuo-peuo. It feeds largely on some ofthe grea-test pests of the beetles and ]\Iay beetles arecaught in large numbers. John writes that a quart of theAving cases and other rejecta of thatcommon pest, the striped cucumberbeetle, were taken from a hole in aMartin box ; and Dr. Packard makes a similar
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . )ing carol, musical and clear, beginning peuo-peuo-peuo. It feeds largely on some ofthe grea-test pests of the beetles and ]\Iay beetles arecaught in large numbers. John writes that a quart of theAving cases and other rejecta of thatcommon pest, the striped cucumberbeetle, were taken from a hole in aMartin box ; and Dr. Packard makes a similar flies and flies that trouble horses and cattle are takenin considerable numbers from the sides of houses and l) Otto AVidmann states, in Forest and Stream, thatthirty-two parent Martins made three thousand, two hun-dred and seventy-seven visits to their young in one day,— June 27, 1884. Everv effort should be made to induce these birds to asraintake up their abode throughout the Fig. 150.—Purple Martin,female. BIRDS OF MARSH AND WATERSIDE. 349
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