ENEMIES OF ORTIIOI'TEKA. 



Screech Owl. 



Reel-tailed Hawk. 



Red-shouldered Hawk. 



Broad-winged Hawk. 



Black Hawk. 



American Sparrow Hawk. 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Black-billed Cuckoo. 



Red-headed Woodpecker. 



Hairy Woodpecker. 



Downy Woodpecker. 



Flicker. 



Night Hawk. 



Whip-poor-will. 



Phoebe. 



Kingbird. 



Prairie Horned Lark. 



Blue Jay. 



Common Crow. 



Bobolink. 



Cowbird. 



Red-winged Blackbird. 



Meadow Lark. 



Killdeer. 



Quail. 



Ruffed Grouse. 



Prairie Hen. 



Wild Turkey. 



Mourning Dove- 



Marsh Hawk'. 



Baltimore Oriole. 



Common Blackbird. 



Song Sparrow. 



Chipping Sparrow. 



Vesper Sparrow. 



Chewink. 



Dickcissel. 



Scarlet Tanager. 



Butcher Bird. 



Red-eyed Vireo. 



Yellow-throated Vireo. 



Black-poll Warbler. 



Pine Warbler. 



Golden Warbler. 



Water Wagtail. 



Yellow-breasted Chat. 



Mockingbird. 



Catbird. 



Tufted Titmouse. 



White-breasted Nuthatch. 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



Brown Thrasher. 



Wilson's Thrush. 



Wood Thrush. 



Hermit Thursh. 



House Wren. 



Robin. 



Bluebird. 



Of the foregoing list, those which feed mainly on Orthoptera 

 during the summer season are the hawks, blackbirds, crows, blue 

 jay, prairie chicken, mockingbird and bluebird. All of the birds 

 mentioned are, however, beneficial in the highest degree and 

 should, at all times, be protected from their enemies, chief among 

 which is the youth with his shotgun, or the small boy with egg- 

 hunting proclivities. 



PREVENTIVE AND BEMEDIAL MEASURES AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE 



LOCUSTS. 



Aside from the locusts or short-horned grasshoppers, few of 

 our Orthoptera ever appear in such numbers as to do excessive 

 damage. However, almost every summer there is in some of our 

 Eastern States an outbreak of locusts which, for a time, cause 

 serious loss. In 1018 they appeared in greater numbers and were 

 more destructive throughout Indiana than for many years. While 



