126 METHODS OF ATTRACTING BIRDS 



fruit diet of birds are condensed into the accom- 

 panying table. This shows the kind of fruit 

 eaten and the birds which feed upon the various 

 kinds. 



The table has been compiled largely from the 

 studies on the food of birds made by the Bio- 

 logical Survey of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, but any other reliable records to 

 which the author has had access have also been 

 used, as Weed and Dearborn's " Birds in Their 

 Eelation to Man," and Dr. Hodge's "Food Chart 

 of Our Common Birds." Messrs. E. H. Forbush 

 and F. E. L. Beal have both contributed to the 

 chart. A letter F placed in a column signifies that 

 this food is eaten by the bird in question. A 

 double FF indicates that the fruit forms an im- 

 portant article of food. As far as data have been 

 available, the total percentage of the entire food 

 which the wild and cultivated fruits form has 

 been given. 



In the table the birds and fruits are arranged 

 alphabetically. Following that, is a list of fruits 

 arranged according to the number of species 

 of birds which eat them, and then a list of birds 

 according to the numbers of species of fruit 

 upon which they are known to feed. 



