. 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 . ^ had driven the Grouseto the woods ; but that this did little harm, as Grouse werenaturally Avood birds, while the Pheasants were birds of theopen country. They were doing some damage to crops,but this had not caused any cry for their abatement, andthe people generally considered them a valuable BIRDS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 333 In 1897 Mr. F. H. Mosher confined
. 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 . ^ had driven the Grouseto the woods ; but that this did little harm, as Grouse werenaturally Avood birds, while the Pheasants were birds of theopen country. They were doing some damage to crops,but this had not caused any cry for their abatement, andthe people generally considered them a valuable BIRDS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 333 In 1897 Mr. F. H. Mosher confined two adult birds atMaiden. They were given some choice of food, and werefond of grain, weed seeds, vegetables, fruit, and ate seventy full-grown gipsy moth caterpillars in halfa day. AYithiii another half day they ate one hundred andeight egg-bearing female gipsy moths. No young birdscould be secured for experiment. In 1903 complaints began to come in that Pheasants wereinjuring crops and killing game birds. Circulars sent outto three hundred correspondents in different parts of theState brought replies regarding these birds from over twohundred people. A considerable number of correspondentshad never heard of the species in their vicinity. Forty-twostated that the bird was not then present in their asserted either that it was \gyj rare in their vicinityor had disappeared. Pheasants were reported as numer-ous only near Winchester, where the State pheasantry waslocated, in a few other places wh
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