BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



luckless worm or calling "cheer up, cheer up, 

 cheer up" from the leafy tree tops. Besides, it 

 is one of our most useful birds, devouring great 

 quantities of army worms, cut worms, wire 

 worms and injurious bugs and beetles, and 

 coming to our gardens and our orchards for 

 them. The poor Robin, so often blamed for 

 stealing cherries, has paid in advance and paid 

 many times over for all he takes. 



MOCKING BIRD FAMILY 



This is a family closely related to the 

 Thrushes and consisting of only three mem- 

 bers, the Mocking Bird, the Brown Thrasher 

 and the Catbird, all slender, long-tailed birds 

 and beautiful singers. The Mocking Bird 

 lives only in the south, the other two are with 

 us every year. The Thrasher is sometimes 

 called the Brown Thrush, although it does not 

 belong to the Thrush family. This beautiful 

 chestnut-brown, long-tailed bird with the 

 spotted breast, is very familiar in our orchards 

 and the tree clumps. Early in the morning and 

 in the evening it sings its beautiful song in the 

 tree tops somewhere near its nest, which is 

 always carefully hidden on the ground or near 

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