. 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 . most purely insectivorous of all birds, and feeds almost en-tirely on winged insects. Therefore, when the air is clearedof flying insects by long, cold rains or hard frosts, it muststarve. Its note is a full-toned chirruping carol, musical and clear, beginning jpeuo-2)euo-peuo. It feeds largely on some ofthe greatest pests of the beetles and INIay beetles arecauofh
. 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 . most purely insectivorous of all birds, and feeds almost en-tirely on winged insects. Therefore, when the air is clearedof flying insects by long, cold rains or hard frosts, it muststarve. Its note is a full-toned chirruping carol, musical and clear, beginning jpeuo-2)euo-peuo. It feeds largely on some ofthe greatest pests of the beetles and INIay beetles arecauofht in larsfe numbers. John writes that a quart of thewing 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 Otto Widmann 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. Every effort should be made to induce these birds to againtake up their abode throughout the Fig. 150.— Purple Martin,female. BIRDS OF MARSH AND WATERSIDE. 349 CHAPTER X.
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