. 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 . - by day, as the gipsy moth; but. Fig. 88. —Gipsy nidtli, male, naturalsize. Olteii cauglit Ijy the LeastFlycatcher. SUNGLESS BIIWS OF ORCHARD AXD WOODLAND. 231 it also picks up many which are stirring onh^ very early inthe morning or at evening. The bird v^^atches for cater-pillars, and when it sees one stir, flies from its perch andsnaps up the luckless creature. This bird
. 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 . - by day, as the gipsy moth; but. Fig. 88. —Gipsy nidtli, male, naturalsize. Olteii cauglit Ijy the LeastFlycatcher. SUNGLESS BIIWS OF ORCHARD AXD WOODLAND. 231 it also picks up many which are stirring onh^ very early inthe morning or at evening. The bird v^^atches for cater-pillars, and when it sees one stir, flies from its perch andsnaps up the luckless creature. This bird, in common withother Flycatchers, picks up many caterpillarsthat, to escape AVarblers and other enemies,s])in down on their webs or droi^ from the „. ^ ^ Fig. 89. —(an- trees. The greatest service our little Fly- kerworm, nat-catcher renders to man consists of the destruc-tion of such orchard pests as boring beetles, bark l)eetles5the fly of the railroad worm, codling moths, gipsy moths,cankerworms, and other caterpillars. Nuttall says that when the young are out of the nest theymove about in company with the old birds, eating whortle-berries and cornel berries. Wood Pewee. Contopus virens. Length. — Six to about six and one-half inches. A
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