. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1903 Copyright, 1903 BY Clarence M. Weed and Ned Dearborn Published June, /QOJ Electrotyped and Printed byJ. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A. TO STEPHEN ALFRED FORBES DIRECTOR OF THE ILLINOIS STATELABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY WHOSE CLASSIC STUDIES OF THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF BIRDS WILE LONG REMAIN THE MODEL FOR LATER STUDENTS IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Introduction.—The Relations of Birds to Man .... 1 I.—The M


. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1903 Copyright, 1903 BY Clarence M. Weed and Ned Dearborn Published June, /QOJ Electrotyped and Printed byJ. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A. TO STEPHEN ALFRED FORBES DIRECTOR OF THE ILLINOIS STATELABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY WHOSE CLASSIC STUDIES OF THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF BIRDS WILE LONG REMAIN THE MODEL FOR LATER STUDENTS IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Introduction.—The Relations of Birds to Man .... 1 I.—The Methods of Studying the Food of Birds . 9 II.—The Development of Economic Ornithology 17 III.—The Vegetable Food of Birds 27 IV.—The Animal Food of Birds 42 V.—The Amount of Food consumed by Birds 59 VI.—Birds as Begulators of Outbreaks of Injurious Animals 68VII.—The Belations of Birds to Predaceous and Parasitic Insects 81 VIII.—The Thrushes and their Allies 86 IX.—The Nuthatches, Titmice, Creepers, and Wrens . 105 X.—The Warblers and the Vireos 112 XI.—The Shrikes, Wa


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