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same subject. The bobwhite is fond of briar patches, weed 

 patches, grain and buckwheat fields, mowing fields and potato 

 fields. It likes potato beetles. It may be fed small grain or 

 chaft' in winter under brush shelters, and will generally nest 

 where it is well treated. 



Mourning Dove. 

 Nothing succeeds in attracting this bird like weedy grain 

 fields and buckwheat fields.^ About sunset the dove goes to 

 some pool to drink and bathe, therefore a drinking place is an 

 added attraction. 



Northern Flicker. 

 Flickers may be attracted in summer by nesting boxes. (See 

 Circular No. 10, Massachusetts State Department of Agriculture, 

 entitled "Bird Houses and Nesting Boxes.") The flicker is 

 fond of the fruit of the chokecherry or rumcherry, and the tupelo, 

 or sour gum, as it grows on the tree. It may alw^ays be found 

 in August and September eating the fruit of these trees. It 

 turns to the fruit of the mountain ash, poison ivy, Virginia 

 juniper and bayberry, or wax myrtle, in winter. In severe 

 winter weather it sometimes comes to suet and ground raw or 

 roasted peanuts put out for other winter birds. 



Downy Woodpecker. . 

 Suet, pork fat or meat almost always attracts this species 

 and the hairy woodpecker. Both species sometimes eat crumbs. 

 The downy rarely if ever nests in a nesting box, but will often 

 sleep in one placed near a feeding station in winter. 



Whippoorwill. 

 The whippoorwill is a very useful bird — a great destroyer of 

 mosquitoes and other noxious nocturnal insects. It likes to sit 

 and call on a large stone, which accounts for its propensity to 

 alight on the door stones of farmhouses. Mr. Stanley H. Brom- 

 ley tells of a farmer who provided a large tray filled with fine 

 dry wood ashes to which the whippoorwills came at evening 

 to dust their feathers. This suggests an interesting experiment. 



1 Buckwheat also attracts many other birds. 



