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of Biological Survey, with a few omissions and a 

 change hi the order. These plants are arranged in 

 the order in which the fruit begins to ripen, so that 

 from a study of this table one may select shrubs 

 which will furnish the birds with a succession of 

 food from spring through summer and fall, and even 

 through whiter, as the fruit of several shrubs re- 

 mains during most of the winter season. The period 

 of the fruiting-season is taken from the earliest and 

 latest dates recorded for New York and New Eng- 

 land, so that an individual plant would not remain 

 in fruit during all of this period. 



Mr. Frederic H. Kennard, in Baynes's "Our Wild 

 Bird Guests," suggests the following species as 

 among the best for providing birds with a con- 

 tinuous supply of food throughout the year : 



Trees Shrubs Vinet 



r White mulberry Shad-bush 



I Red mulberry Blue cornel 



Summer { Bird cherry (Prunua Tartarian honey- 

 pennjylvanica) suckle 



Red-berried elder 



I 



f Flowering dogwood Silky cornel Frost grape 



White thorn Grav cornel 



Autumn-^ Bird cherry (Prunus Arrowwood 



Withe-rod 

 Common elder 



1 V 



serotina) \\ ithe-rod 



Winter 



Gray birch Barberry Virginia creeper 



Cockspur thorn Black alder Summer grape 



European mountain- Common privet 



ash Buckthorn 



Siberian crab-apple Sheep-berry 

 Black haw 



