. 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 . m from the forks where thevwere clustered. I could not count how many lie ate, but there were atleast thirty brown-tails. A female Chestnut-sided Warbler came intothe tree and ate eleven brown-tails, when she was followed by themale. He would eat one or two, then chase his mate through the appletree and the adjoining trees. They were in and out of the tree, backand forth, fo
. 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 . m from the forks where thevwere clustered. I could not count how many lie ate, but there were atleast thirty brown-tails. A female Chestnut-sided Warbler came intothe tree and ate eleven brown-tails, when she was followed by themale. He would eat one or two, then chase his mate through the appletree and the adjoining trees. They were in and out of the tree, backand forth, for nearly twenty minutes. A Chii)ping Si)arrow came toone of the upper branches and took a larva, flew to the ledge near me,hannnered it, and ate it, swallowing it whole. She tlien flew back, tookanother, flew to a lower branch with it, and ate it in the same she flew away. May 24.—A Black-billed Cuckoo came to the ajjple tree that has atent caterpillars nest in it, pulled open the web and took two caterpil-lars from it, when he was seen by a Kingbird and chased out. TheKingbird went to the nest and pulled out a mouthful of web and took itaway to its nest. A male Oriole came soon afterward, and took three. BIRDS, CATERPILLARS, AND PLANT LICE. 137 caterpillars from the web and ate them. There were two Crows in thebrown-tail moth tree when I came in sight of it. I saw one of thempeck twice at the branch, and swallow something. In attempting to o-etnearer to them I made a noise, and frightened them away. Conld findnothing on the branch they were on except brown-tail moths, whichthey were eating. The next visitor was an Oriole, who came to thetree and ate thirty-four larvae in six minutes, then flew away. liehammered each larva once or twice before swallowing it. The nextvisitor was a Wilsons Thrush. He first perched on a small oak on thetop of the ledge, then hopped to the dry leaves, and seemed to besearching among them for food for about five minutes. Ihen he flewto th
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