. 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 . 304 USEFUL Fig. 135. —Moth of the tent caterpillar,natural size. chips, a sort of squeak, and a series of querulous twitters,uttered when the bird is angry. The males are sometimespugnacious, and have been known to fight to the death. The Chippy feeds very largely in spring and early sunmieron small caterpillars, and is therefore very useful in the orchard, Mr. Kirkl
. 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 . 304 USEFUL Fig. 135. —Moth of the tent caterpillar,natural size. chips, a sort of squeak, and a series of querulous twitters,uttered when the bird is angry. The males are sometimespugnacious, and have been known to fight to the death. The Chippy feeds very largely in spring and early sunmieron small caterpillars, and is therefore very useful in the orchard, Mr. Kirkland sawa single bird eat fifty-fourcankerworms at one Chippy is destructive tohairy caterpillars. It wasthe Chipping Sparrow thatfro(j[uently interfered withexperiments upon gipsy caterpillars, by breaking throughthe net that enclosed them and stealing the hairy bird is a persistent enemy of the caterpillar of thebrown-tail moth, the tent caterpillar, and that of the tus-sock moth. Nocturnal moths, particularly Arctians, andTineid moths are caught in the air. Currant worms do notcome amiss. It is destructive to the codling moth and themoths of the tent caterpillar and the forest tent all, thirt
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