. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . of the ground-beetle, Ha/rpahicaligin08U8, which as before stated has lately been found harmful to SPECIES. 1 n«.» Btrawberries. The other beetles eaten were darkling-beetles (Opatns), and two clover weevils (Sitones hispidvlus and Phytpunctatus). One i>mn hud fed n the pupa of a dipterous insect andtwo had picked up cocoons of a tineid moth. Several had destnCutworms and army worms. Two had eaten ♦» cutworms apiece. The rohin ia abundant and La most useful. It is the scourge of theInsects that infest the open cultivated f
. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . of the ground-beetle, Ha/rpahicaligin08U8, which as before stated has lately been found harmful to SPECIES. 1 n«.» Btrawberries. The other beetles eaten were darkling-beetles (Opatns), and two clover weevils (Sitones hispidvlus and Phytpunctatus). One i>mn hud fed n the pupa of a dipterous insect andtwo had picked up cocoons of a tineid moth. Several had destnCutworms and army worms. Two had eaten ♦» cutworms apiece. The rohin ia abundant and La most useful. It is the scourge of theInsects that infest the open cultivated fields f the farm. Unfortu-nately it usually gets little credit for its virtue-, is outlawed for vicesthat it doe- not possess, and is -hot in Large numbers for food. • Bluebirds (Sialia waits, PI. XVII, fig. L) breed hut sparingly atMar-hall Hall on account of the persecutions of the English twenties and thirties they visit the farm in spring, autumn, andeven winter. Two birds were taken Februarv 20, L 900, and five on the. Fig. 41.—Rnhin. 19th of the previous November. Six of these had eaten fruit, whichconstituted rather more than half of all the food. It was composed ofthe berries of bittersweet, woodbine, cedar, sumac, and poison had eaten 8 poison ivy berries and l!.~> cedar berries apparentlya pretty large dose of stimulating drugs. All had eaten selection had fallen on such highly flavored species as ground-beetles (Harpaltui), stink bugs (Pentatomidse), and other bugs, includ-ing Alydus julnsuhis. One had eaten a dung-beetle (Aphodius).Grasshoppers and crickets had also entered into their fare. Cater-pillars, including bristly,Arctiidse and cutworms, had been the preyof all. It is a pleasant duty t report that this bird, so popularthroughout the land. i-. through it- excellent work a-a destroyer ofnoxious insects, well worthy the protection and encouragement it 110 BEBD8 OF A MARYLAND FARM. receives. Bluebirds no longer nest
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