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of injurious insects far outweighs the bad. Salamanders, or ground 

 puppies, live beneath logs and chunks and burrow into the surround- 

 ing region in search of eggs and larvas, while snakes feed largely 

 upon the young and mature of grasshoppers and locusts, yet all are 

 destroyed at sight. 



Many species of birds use as food both the young and full grown 

 of all kinds of Orthoptera. The Division of Ornithology at Washing- 

 ton, and other authorities, have made investigations of the stomachs 

 of many species of birds, and have found that the following species 

 which occur in Indiana feed largely upon locusts, grasshoppers and 

 other forms of Orthoptera. 



LIST OF INDIANA BIRDS WHICH ARE KNOWN TO FEED 

 UPON ORTHOPTERA. 



Franklin's Gull. 



Black Tei-n. 



American Bittern. 



Least Bittern. 



King Rail. 



Sora. 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Golden Ploven 



Red-tailed Hawk. 



Red-shouldered Hawlj. 



Broad-winged Hawk. 



Black Hawk. 



American Sparrow Hawk. 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Black-billed Cuckoo. 



Red-headed Woodpecker. 



Night Hawk. 



Phoebe. 



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. 



Vesper Sparrow. 



Chewink. 



Dickcissel. 



Scarlet Tanager. 



Butcher Bird. 



Red-eyed Virco. 



Yellow-throated Vireo. 



Water Wagtail. 



Yellow-breasted Chat. 



Mockingbird. 



Catbird. 



Brown Thrasher. 



Hermit Thrush. 



Robin. 



Bluebird. 



Of the foregoing list, those which feed mainly on Orthoptera dur- 

 ing the summer season are the hawks, blackbirds, crows, blue jay. 

 prairie chicken, mockingbird and bluebird. All of these birds are, 

 however, beneficial in the highest degree and all 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. 



