No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 39j 



Governor Wood and common Black Mayard. 



Mulberry, ^^'bite or Ivusyian, and Black and common 



Kaspberry, 



Buckberry, 



Huckleberry, 



Blueberry, 



Bayberry, 



Pokeberry, 



Elderberry, 



Hawthorne, 



Buckthorn, 



\'erburnum. 



Frost Grape, 



Fox Grape, 



Wild Grape, 



Green Brier, 



Bittersweet, 



Burning Bush, 



Cedar, 



Juniper, 



Holly, 



Gum tree, 



Barberry, 



Spice Bush, 



Hackberrv, 



English Ivy, 



5-leaved Climbing Ivy (Virginia Creeper). 



Publications. 



We regret to find it necessary to announce the suspension of the 

 valuable magazine on birds and similar subjects which was illus- 

 trated by color process and issued good colored illustrations of 

 our native birds. This was entitled "Birds and All Nature," and 

 was published in Chicago. 



Our Zoological Bulletin for February, 1908, w^as on ^'Bir^^ and 

 Nesting Boxes," and another is soon to be issued on the Purple 

 Martin. 



From the United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletins 

 have been published giving results of research on the food of native 

 birds, emphasizing the value of such birds as our native Sparrows 

 and Doves as destroyers of weed seeds, and the warblers and other 

 tree-top birds as insectivorous. 



Legislation. 



We note with gratification that the Game Commission proposes 

 to strike Columbm (which includes the Dove and Wild Pigeon) from 

 the list of game birds, putting them on the permanently protected 

 list. This is a good move, and should be supported b^- our Board, 

 but at the same time we regret that they will make an effort to re- 

 move from the protected list the Eagle, the Osprey, the Blue Her- 

 ron, and the Bittern. Eagles are not sufiQciently numerous in this 

 country to be a source of menace to agricultural interests nor to 



