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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Plymouth, 

 South Lincoln, 

 Spencer, 

 Springfield, 

 Uxbridge, 



Wayland, 

 ^^Venham, 

 Westfield, 

 Weston, 



Whitinsville, 

 Wilkinsonville, 

 Wilmington, 

 Worcester. 



Other Places ivhere Suspected Localities have been inspected in which no 



Moths have been found. 



New Hampshire. 



Barnstead, Hayes, Salmon Falls, 



Centre Harbor, Manchester, Union, 



Conway Junction, Milton, Wolf borough Junction 



Great Falls, Rochester, 



Georgetown, 



Maine. 

 Livermore Falls, 



South Berwick. 



Circumstances Favorable to the Extermination of the Gypsy Moth, 

 not given in the Rep)ort of 1891. 



1. An increased number of its enemies has been observed. Five spe- 

 cies of beetles and many sjjiders have been seen to eat the caterpillars. 

 The following birds have been seen to feed upon the motlis, caterpillars 

 or eggs : — 



Phoebe, 



American robin, . 



Catbird, 



Brown thrasher, . 



Bluebird, 



Chickadee, . 



American redstart, . . 



Black and white warbler, . 



Maryland yellow-throated warbler. 



Yellow warbler, . 



lled-eyed vireo, . 



"W^iite-eyed vireo, 



Yellovf-throated vireo. 



Chipping si)arrow, 



English sparrow. 



Yellow-billed cuckoo, 



Biack-billcd cuckoo. 



Blue jay, 



Baltimore oriole. 



Purple grackle or crow blackbird. 



Kingbird, 



Wood pewee. 



White-bellied nuthatch. 



Oven-bird, . 



Sayornis 2>hoebe. 

 Merula migratoria. 

 Oaleoscop)tes carolinensis. 

 Harporhynchus rufus. 

 Sialia sialis. 

 Parus atricajnllns. 

 Setojjhaga rnticilla. 

 Mniotilla varin. 

 Geothlypis trichas. 

 Dendroica cestiva. 

 Vireo olivaceus. 

 Vireo noveboracensis. 

 Vireo flavifrons. 

 Spizella socialis. 

 Passer domesticus. 

 Coccyzus americanus. 

 Coccyzus erythrophthalnms. 

 Cyanocitta cristata. 

 Icterus galbula. 

 Quiscalus quiscula. 

 Tyrannies iyrannus. 

 Contojnis vircns. 

 Sitta carolinensis. 

 Seiurus aurocapillus. 



