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BIRDS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO MAN. 



bears them, wax-myrtle. Bayberries are also eaten by other 

 winter birds and late migrants, much the same as sumach and 

 cedar-berries are. 



These dry fruits must be reckoned as necessities rather 

 than luxuries in bird economy : except the bayberries, they 

 are seldom eaten when more palatable fruit is to be had. 



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THE MYRTLE WARBLER. 



Pulpy fruits, on the contrary, are evidently enjoyed by 

 birds, for they form the main diet of many normally insec- 

 tivorous birds just when insects are most abundant. Of the 

 various plants, large and small, bearing pulpy fruits, those of 

 the rose family (Rosaceee) hold first place from our present 



