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Title: 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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: (Boston, Mass.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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PLATE XVII. — Pines, Oaks, and Other Trees, stripped by the Omniv-orous Caterpillars of the Gipsy Moth. Georgetown (where Mr.Moshers observations were made), July 11, 18U0. (From the annualreport of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1899.) BIRDS, CATERPILLARS, AND PLANT LICE. 145 billed Cuckoos that were coming and going all the time I was there,and they were eating large quantities of larvje. The young would takea larva and work it over with the bill for a long time, and then swallowit. The old ones would take a larva, beat it on a limb a few times, andswallow it. Most of the birds were gone by 8.30 a.m. They weremost plentiful between 5.30 and 7 a.m. The Cuckoos and Chickadeeswere coming and going all day. When we came in sight of the placeafter dinner we saw nine Crows fly to the edge of the stri2)ped patch,and alight in the trees that were partially stripped, but when we triedto get near them, they flew away. When I went into the colony Ifound there were still two Cr

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