. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. Adult Nestlmgs Fig, 116. Diagram showing proportions of food of English sparrowyoung and adiUt. 182 Elementary Principles of Agriculture time one feels tempted to kill birds, he should not onlythink of the good they do by destroying insects andweed seeds, but possibly not far off there is a group oftender nestlings waiting for mama or papa bird to comehome with a morsel of food, to check the pangs of women decorate their hats with aigrettes, theyencourage selfish persons to kill harmless birds. It isagainst
. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. Adult Nestlmgs Fig, 116. Diagram showing proportions of food of English sparrowyoung and adiUt. 182 Elementary Principles of Agriculture time one feels tempted to kill birds, he should not onlythink of the good they do by destroying insects andweed seeds, but possibly not far off there is a group oftender nestlings waiting for mama or papa bird to comehome with a morsel of food, to check the pangs of women decorate their hats with aigrettes, theyencourage selfish persons to kill harmless birds. It isagainst the laws of many states to kill the useful one should want to destroy them. Birds should beprotected at all seasons. Define game birds andNon-game birds, as used in the laws of your state. 252. English Sparrows (Fig. 117) live almost exclu-sively on the farmers crops, besides destroying the. Fig. 117. English sparrow. ^^ eggs and nests of other birds. They should be de-stroyed. The native species of sparrows are insect-eating birds. 253. Migration of Birds. Some birds five all the timein the same locality, like the partridge, Texas road-runner, and downy woodpecker, the sparrow, and the Wild Birds and Other Insect-eating Animals 183 cardinal, while other kinds, as the robin, bluejay, etc., spend one season in one part of the world, and the others elsewhere. Everybody knows that the wild geese fly over in the fall, going south to the warm salt waters, and back again in the spring on their way to the breeding-grounds in Canada. Likewise, the field-lark spends the summer in the North, and in the fall and winter he makes his home in the South. (Fig. 118.) 253a. Make a listof the kinds of birds,found in the many kinds are permanent residents, and how many visitfor only a part of the year? 254. The Feeding Habits of Birds. The farmer isInterested in the birds because
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