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then, the coming of the birds, and protect them after they 

 are with you by insisting that they shall not be molested, 

 neither as to their nests nor as to themselves. Insure a 

 bird's personal safety, and he will stay with you and will 

 bring along his family and a host of relatives besides. 



Other insect pests of the beetle kind and their de- 

 stroyers might be mentioned: 



Potato beetle 



Rose-breasted grosbeak Quail 



Mongolian pheasant Yellow-billed and black- 



(lately introduced) billed cuckoo 



Weevils and leaf beetles 



Yellow-billed and black- Towhees 



billed cuckoos Kingbirds 



Sparrows English sparrows 



Phoebes Red-winged blackbirds 



Twelve -spotted cucumber beetle 



Quails Prairie chickens 



Grubs of various kinds, principally of May beetles 



Domestic fowls Robins 



Blackbirds 



Click beetles 



Flickers Kingbirds 



Phoebes Yellow-billed and black- 

 Baltimore orioles billed cuckoos 



May beetles 



Blue jays 



Borers 



Downy woodpeckers Flickers 

 Hairy woodpeckers 



