. 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 . Fig. 95. —Wood- boring clickbeetle, Fig. 96. — r>n>\vn tail niotli. SONOLESS BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 235 house flies, mosquitoes, and vast numbers of moths and but-terflies in Ijoth larval and adult stages. Bendire asserts thatDr. Ralph told him that in Florida the Phoebe alights on thebacks of cattle and follows them around, catching the flieson the
. 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 . Fig. 95. —Wood- boring clickbeetle, Fig. 96. — r>n>\vn tail niotli. SONOLESS BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 235 house flies, mosquitoes, and vast numbers of moths and but-terflies in Ijoth larval and adult stages. Bendire asserts thatDr. Ralph told him that in Florida the Phoebe alights on thebacks of cattle and follows them around, catching the flieson the animals, and fluttering above them in search of in-sects. The only harmful habit of this bird that I have heardof is also mentioned by Bendire, who says that it is said toeat trout fry. As the young of the Phoebe are fed enormous numbers ofinsects, as two broods are raised each year, and as in settleddistricts the bird has largely forsaken its natural nestingplaces for the habitations of man, it is now one of the mostbeneficial species. From year to year, as has been provenrepeatedly, the bird returns to its favorite haunts ; and theyoung birds, though driven away in the fall by the parents,like to find, when possible, a nesting site near their old
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