How to Attract the Birds 



has snatched a hasty lunch in any given place, the 

 vireo can follow him and find a square meal to be 

 enjoyed at leisure. 



But vireos and warblers, which are smaller than 

 sparrows, however efficient as destroyers of the lesser 

 insects, would be powerless to grapple with the lar- 

 ger pests found 

 in the same 

 places. Accord- 

 ingly, another 

 gang of larger 

 feathered work- 

 ers helps take 

 care of the foli- 

 age for that 

 most thorough 

 of housekeepers, 

 Dame Nature. 

 Hidden among 

 the foliage of 

 trees and shub- 

 b e r y , an im- 

 mense army of 

 feathered work- 

 ers — many of 

 our most beauti- 

 ful birds and 



A feast of tent caterpillars for the cuckoo finCSt SOUffStCrS 



among them — serve her without hire, and during 

 longer working hours than any trades - union 

 would allow. Thrushes, bluebirds, robins, mock- 

 ingbirds, orioles, catbirds, thrashers, wrens, and 

 tanagers — these and many others keep up a lively 



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