. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . nd black-berry bushes, and left to itself, w^ill become an asylum for cat-birds, brown thrashers, and many other birds which ordinarilynest in tangles. The bright yellow flowers and red berriesof the barberry bush, lianging as they do in graceful sprays,are ornamental anywhere. The berries are very persistent,remaining till next years crop is well started, and are devouredby many birds when other food is scarce. The bay or wax-myrtle bush has an aromatic fragrance in summer, and is notunsight
. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . nd black-berry bushes, and left to itself, w^ill become an asylum for cat-birds, brown thrashers, and many other birds which ordinarilynest in tangles. The bright yellow flowers and red berriesof the barberry bush, lianging as they do in graceful sprays,are ornamental anywhere. The berries are very persistent,remaining till next years crop is well started, and are devouredby many birds when other food is scarce. The bay or wax-myrtle bush has an aromatic fragrance in summer, and is notunsightly in quiet corners with its winter load of pallid small plat devoted to it will flood the grounds witli myrtlewarblers every fall and thereby indirectly prove a scourge toinsects, as these birds prefer an insect diet and turn to bay-berries only when insects fail. ENCOURAGING THE PRESEXCi: OF RIRDS. noi) A supply uf water in shallow receptacles set flush with theturf will fully repay all it. costs in entertainini,^ views of avianlavatory operations. Robins love a shower-bath from spray-. MK. CHAPMAN S UIKDS-BATH. ing fountains on hot summer afternoons, and where lawns arekept close-cropped and weU watered, robins are always onhand for the earthworms that come to the moist surface. We
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