2 4 o PROPAGATION OF WILD BIRDS 



H. A. Surface is also quoted as stating that the four fruits 

 he finds most attractive to birds are an early sweet cherry, 

 the service (June) berry, mulberry, and Virginia creeper. 



Species Attractive to Birds. In an article in Bird-Lore, 

 July- August, 1912, F. H. Kennard gives a list of trees, 

 vines, shrubs, and herbs bearing fruit or seeds attractive to 

 birds, which he compiled as a provisional list from which 

 to choose species for the further development of the bird 

 sanctuary of the Meriden Bird Club at Meriden, New 

 Hampshire. He omits from the list the larch or hackmatack 

 and the Norway pine or spruce for want of direct data. 

 E. H. Forbush, however, includes these, and I have had these 

 species on my premises and found them quite attractive to 

 birds. In the list which follows, taken from a reprint by 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, Mr. Ken- 

 nard has marked with three asterisks, those plants which 

 are particularly attractive to birds, while those with more 

 than ordinary attractiveness are shown by two or one. 

 Those species whose fruits seem to be eaten so seldom as to 

 make their planting hardly worth while are marked with a 

 cross. 



DECIDUOUS TREES 



*Acer negundo, Ash-leaved ***Cornus florida, Flowering 



Maple, Box Elder. Dogwood. 



Acer sacchamm, Sugar \Corylus amer-icana, Amer- 



Maple; and doubtless ican Hazel. 



other maples. **Crakegus coccinea, White 



Betula populifolia, Amer- Thorn. 



ican Gray Birch. **CraUzgus corus-galli, Cock- 



Betula lutea, Yellow Birch; spur Thorn; and others 



and probably other of this genus. 



birches. \Fagus americana, Amer- 



Celtis occidentalism Hack- ican Beech. 



berry. *Fraxinus americana, Ameri- 



Cercis canadensis, Red- can White Ash; and 



bud. probably other species. 



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