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l>. Relation of Color to Song. 



(a) Dull color generally beautiful song song sparrow, 



thrushes, vireo. 



(b) Brilliant colors usually unpleasant notes peacock, wood- 



pecker, humming bird. 



VI. Food. 



1. Kinds of Food. 



(a) Weed seeds, fruit. 



(b) Animal eggs, larvae, pupae, insects; birds; fish; mice and 



rats. 



2. Manner of Obtaining Food. 



(a) On the wing. 



(b) With call of warning. 



(c) In wait for prey. 



(d) Oh prey without warning. 



VII. Insect-Eating Birds. 



1. Potato Beetle. 



Rose-breasted grossbeak, cuckoo, quail, hairy woodpecker. 



2. Tent Caterpillar. 



Crow, chickadee, oriole, red-eyed vireo, yellow-billed cuckoo. 



3. Cutworms. 



Robin, crow, cat bird, house wren, meadow lark, cow bird. 



4. Ants. 



Catbird, thrasher, house wren, woodpecker. 



5. Scale Insects. 



Woodpeckers, cedar bird, bush- tit. ? 



6. -May Beetle. 



Hermit thrush, robin, meadow lark, brown thrasher, bue-bird, cat 

 bird, blue jay. 



7. Weevils. 



Crow, crow blackbird, red- winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, cat 

 bird, cow bird, scarlet tanager. 



8. Chinch Bug. 



Brown thrasher, meadow lark, cat bird, red-eyed vireo, robin, bob 

 white. 



9. Wire Worm. 



Red-winged blackbird, crow blackbird, crow, woodpecker, brown 

 thrasher, cat bird, scarlet tanager, oriole cow bird. 



10. Crane Flies. 



Robin, cat bird, wood thrush, crow, crow blackbird, red-winged 

 blackbird. 



11. Cotton Worms. 



B^i^birH. blue jay, red-winged blackbird, thrushes, prairie 

 chickeir^uail, kilden, bobolink, cardinal. 



