. 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 . was full of caterpillars aweek ago contained only three to-day, and a large part of the web hadbeen carried away by the birds for nesting material. Just after I had opened the web an Oriole flew toit and took one of the remainingcaterpillars. The Orioles are eat-ing immense numbers of canker-worms. The row of apple treesnearest the woods now show butlittle signs of the prese
. 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 . was full of caterpillars aweek ago contained only three to-day, and a large part of the web hadbeen carried away by the birds for nesting material. Just after I had opened the web an Oriole flew toit and took one of the remainingcaterpillars. The Orioles are eat-ing immense numbers of canker-worms. The row of apple treesnearest the woods now show butlittle signs of the presence ofcankerworms. A pair of ScarletTanagers came to the brown-tail moth tree. The male stayed seven-teen minutes and the female ten minutes. The male ate at least forty-four larv;e, and probably many more. They took only those that wereon the leaves, and they examined all leaves that were curled up, andtook from them all the larvas they contained. A AVood Thrush cameto the tree just at night, and perched and sang for nearly half an he would move along the branch and pick a brown-taillarva or two. The Black and White Warblers came again, stopped amoment, taking two and three each, then flew Fig. 43. — Caterpillar of the brown-tailmoth. 134 USEFUL BIRDS. May 17. — A male Yellow AVarbler came to the brown-tail moth treeand began eating the larwne. He had eaten four when a flock of EnglishSparrows flew into the tree and drove him out, one of them chasing himacross the boulevard. The remaining five Sparrows jjecked a few timesat the larva;, then they flew to the street below. A Song Sparrow cameto the tree in the earlj morning and perched a while and sang, then hewent to the ground and foraged for about twenty minutes, searching inthe grass, then among the leaves. I saw him take two small greengrasshoppers. He then Avent to the tree and picked five brown-taillarvae from the branch, then flew away. A pair of Wood Thrushescame to the orchard and stayed th
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