40 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1898. 



grape, wild black cherry, choke-cherry, mulberry, cranberry, 

 blueberry, huckleberry, hoUyberry, elderberry, hackberry, 

 service-berry, spice berry, hawthorn, bittersweet, Virginia 

 creeper, mountain ash, barberry, pokeberry, strawberry, bush- 

 berry, juniper, and bayberry. 



The two Thrushes that we have here through the summer, 

 that is, the Wood Thrush and the Wilson Thrush, are almost 

 wholly insectivorous. They teed to some extent upon wild 

 fruit and do not come so close to the orchards as the other 

 birds, but still they are never far from the habitations of man. 

 The Thrushes here come every year by Millstone Hill, and 

 Green Hill, and I know that they are in the south part of the 

 city and also in the west. I found a pair of them at Elm Park 

 one spring. The shrubbery has all been cut away just where I 

 found them. It is very unfortunate to lose the lower branches 

 of the trees and the thick shrubbery where the birds go for 

 food. They seek those places especially for protection and need 

 them to resort to. They do a great deal of good in eating the 

 larva3 of a great many insects. 



The little Kinglets are very valuable. They are the gleaners 

 of trees especially, and we usually see them about the trunk 

 and the limbs of the trees, pecking in all the crevices of the 

 bark. They are very industrious indeed. The Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet is a winter bird and is here all through the winter, and 

 the Ruby-crowned comes in the fall and the early spring. The 

 Ruby-crowned has a wonderful song for so tiny a bird. It is 

 one of the most wonderful things to find such a volume of song 

 coming from such a scrap of a bird. 



The white-breasted Nuthatch is quite common here and is a 

 resident, that is, lives here the year round. It is distinguished 

 from the Woodpecker by having almost no tail. The wings 

 come down even with the tail. Its habits are quite different 

 from those of the Woodpecker, and it is almost always coming 

 down the tree or hanging from the inside of the branches. The 

 small one of Canada comes to us in the winter and last winter 

 was very abundant indeed. It was found in large numbers by 

 the Lake, and in the western part of the city. The winter 



