. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . Robins, orioles, chipping sparrows, catbirds, cuckoos, the red eyed, white eyed and warblingvireos, cedar birds and nuthatches have been observedfeeding on forest tent caterpillars by Miss Caroline The nuthatches would stand by a patch of larvae Fis- 5—fiery ground beetle. J r (After Riley). lying close together below a tar band on a tree and eat so voraciously and with such an entire abandonment of self-consciousness that I couldgo close and put my hand on them before they would fly. This e
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . Robins, orioles, chipping sparrows, catbirds, cuckoos, the red eyed, white eyed and warblingvireos, cedar birds and nuthatches have been observedfeeding on forest tent caterpillars by Miss Caroline The nuthatches would stand by a patch of larvae Fis- 5—fiery ground beetle. J r (After Riley). lying close together below a tar band on a tree and eat so voraciously and with such an entire abandonment of self-consciousness that I couldgo close and put my hand on them before they would fly. This experience wasrepeated several times. Mr. E. H. Forbush, Ornithologist to the MassachusettsState Board of Agriculture, has kindly supplied me with the following list of nativebirds observed by him feeding on forest tent caterpillars: Oriole, black billedcuckoo, yellow billed cuckoo, crow, blue jay, redstart, nuthatch, wood thrush,chewink, black and white creeper, red eyed vireo, flicker and scarlet tanager. H. Lowe has observed the black capped chickadee feeding on the eggs and the. 37§ REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF robin on the caterpillars, beside others mentioned above. Professor C. M. Weedstates that the robin, chipping sparrow, yellow bird and English sparrow feedon the moths. The value of birds in keeping other pests under control is also strikingly shown inthe experiment conducted by Mr. Forbush. In a typical orchard at Medford, Mass.,-a little trouble was taken to attract the native birds, the nests of the English or housesparrow being destroyed. The results were greatly in favor of protecting ourindigenous forms. In the neighboring orchards it was evident that canker wormsand tent caterpillars were very numerous, but in the orchard in question, the treeswere seriously injured in only one or two instances, though no attempt was made tocontrol the insects by spraying or other artificial means. Our native birds are undoubtedly of great value and will richly repay
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