. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Chuck-wills Widow, creeper, nuthatches, and titmice, doubtless eat largely of the eggs of canker-worms and otherinsects which destroy or injure the trees. Winter birds of the above species which I have shotat this time have their stomachs crammed with insects of some kind. The Baltimore oriole willeat largely of the tent caterpillar, and is the only bird which will do this. All the thrushes willeat -sv-ire worms. The swallows destroy multitudes of
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Chuck-wills Widow, creeper, nuthatches, and titmice, doubtless eat largely of the eggs of canker-worms and otherinsects which destroy or injure the trees. Winter birds of the above species which I have shotat this time have their stomachs crammed with insects of some kind. The Baltimore oriole willeat largely of the tent caterpillar, and is the only bird which will do this. All the thrushes willeat -sv-ire worms. The swallows destroy multitudes of dipterous insects (gnats, etc). In fact, tosum the matter up, there is scarcely a bird wliich will not cat largely of insects at certain seasons,when these posts are most abundant. It is a noticeable fact that many species inliabitingwoods and meadows leave their usual haunts and visit the fruit trees which are covered withcanker-worms, and largely devour them. AGRICULTURAL USES OF BIRDS. 945. D Cuf Kon f f. erythrojihihalmua).(iScansorea.) In reference to the currant saw-fly worm (Nematus ventricosus), I am not certain that Ihave seen any birds eat tliem, yet I think the truly insectivorous species will do this. Thatthe Baltimore oriole sometimes eats large quantities of the American tent caterpillars [Clisio-campa Americana), since they have been found in the stomach of this bird, is an interestingfact, for birds as a rule do not relish hairy caterpUlars,and the American tent caterpillar is covered with longhairs, though they are not so dense as in some other larvas. Dr. T. M. Brewer gives the following statement: The most noticeable of all the destroyers of the canker-worm is the common cedar bird, which devours them toan extent perfectly enormous. Next is the purple grakle,which also feeds on them as long as they last. The housepigeon, if in any numbers, is an invaluable bird. Amongthe other birds, all excellent so far as they go, are the chip-ping sparrow, the song spa
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