. 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 . of thebrown-tail moth, the tent caterpillar, and that of the tus-sock moth. Nocturnal moths, particularly Arctians, andTineid moths are caught in the air. Currant worms do notcome amiss. It is destructive to the codling jnoth and themoths of the tent caterpillar and the forest tent all, thirty-eight per cent, of the food of the ChippingSparrow consists of anim
. 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 . of thebrown-tail moth, the tent caterpillar, and that of the tus-sock moth. Nocturnal moths, particularly Arctians, andTineid moths are caught in the air. Currant worms do notcome amiss. It is destructive to the codling jnoth and themoths of the tent caterpillar and the forest tent all, thirty-eight per cent, of the food of the ChippingSparrow consists of animal matter, three-fourths of which ismade up of noxious June ninety-three percent, of the food consists ofinsects, of which thirty-sixper cent, is grasshoppers,caterpillars form twenty-fiveper cent., and leaf-eatingbeetles six per cent. I have been much im-pressed with the value of thisbird in the garden during thespring and summer destroys at least three mg. sparrows huntingspecies of caterpillar on the beet worms. cabbage. It is the most destructive of all birds to theinjurious pea louse (JVectarophora pisi), which caused aloss of three million dollars to the pea crop of a single.
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