. 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 . Sparrows huntingbeet PLATE XXVIII. —Chipping Sparrows feeding their Young.(PhotoiiTaph, from life, by C. A. Reed.) (From the annualreport of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1902.) BIRDS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 305 State in one year. It is a persistent destroyer of the grubstliat mine the leaves of beets. I watched one bird secureeleven of these grubs in a
. 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 . Sparrows huntingbeet PLATE XXVIII. —Chipping Sparrows feeding their Young.(PhotoiiTaph, from life, by C. A. Reed.) (From the annualreport of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1902.) BIRDS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 305 State in one year. It is a persistent destroyer of the grubstliat mine the leaves of beets. I watched one bird secureeleven of these grubs in a few minutes. It feeds on the esfofsof the parsley butterfly i^Papilio pohjxenes) ^ and also takesyoung larvfB of this species and other insects from the leavesof celery, lettuce, and other small truck. I have no doubtthat an investigation of the food of this bird in the gardenwould show it to be of great value to the market likes to feed on cultivated ground, in the shade of thegreen leaves of vegetables. It oree})s about noiselessly upand down the rows, an unseen and unnoticed influence forgood. Injurious beetles, bugs, leaf hoppers, grasshoppers,and ants are taken freely. Its vegetable food is of less importance than its animal
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