A TRIBE OF WEED WAHRIORS 



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" Because this bird, besides wearing a beautiful rosy 

 shield on his breast, and singing at morning and even- 

 ing more beautifidly even than the very best Robin, is 

 a very industrious and useful bird. He earns his living 

 by helping farmers clear their fields of potato-bugs. If 

 you go quietly over to the large potato lot on the north 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



side of the Farm, you will find these birds at work any 

 morning. I saw them myself to-day, and am going to 

 trust my crop entirely to their keeping this season. 

 Tliey are nesting in the young growth near these very 

 river woods, and I will show you one of their homes 

 presently. You see that protecting birds, and leaving 

 suitable bits of woodland and brush for them to build 

 in, is practical as well as sentimental. 



