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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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Black-throated blue warbler, 

 Myrtle warbler, 

 Magnolia warbler, . 

 Chestnut-sided warbler, . 

 Bay-breasted warbler, 

 Blackburnian warbler, 

 Black-throated green warbler, 

 Pine warbler, ... 

 Prairie warbler, 

 Ovenbird, .... 

 Mourning warbler, . . 

 Maryland yellow-throat, 

 Wilson's warbler, 

 Canada warbler. 

 Redstart, .... 

 Catbird, .... 

 Red-breasted nuthatch, . 

 Veery, .... 

 Robin, .... 

 Bluebird 



Dendroica cxrulescens, coerulescens. 



Dendroica coronata. 



Dendroica viagnolia. 



Dendroica 'pensylvanica. 



Dendroica castanea. 



Dendroica fusca. 



Dendroica virens. 



Dendroica vigorsi. 



Dendroica discolor. 



Seiurus aurocapillus. 



Oporornis Philadelphia. 



Geothlypis trichas trichas. 



Wilsonia pusilla pusilla. 



Wilsonia canadensis. 



Setophaga ruticilla. 



Dumetella carolinensis. 



Sitta canadensis. 



Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens. 



Planesticus migratorius migratorius. 



Sialia sialis sialis. 



This destruction of insect-eating birds over a large part of 

 the State is a serious matter in itself, but evidently similar 

 conditions were maintained over a much larger area through 

 northern New England to New Brunswick, at least as far south 

 as Pennsylvania and as far west as Michigan. A few reports 

 from other parts of the country indicate that the decimation of 

 birds in many other regions was quite as serious as in Massa- 

 chusetts. The "Michigan Sportsman" for August, 1917, al- 

 ludes to the destruction of warblers and other birds by the ele- 

 ments in IMay, and asserts that at one time four dead warblers 

 were brought in and many more were seen. The tameness of 

 the birds also was spoken of. Mr. F. L. Burns of Berwyn, 

 Pennsylvania, reported that a Mr. Sharpies informed him that 

 12 miles away, in West Chester, fully 5,000 migrants were de- 

 stroyed. Mr. T. T. Stevenson writes from Berwick, Maine, 

 that hardly a pair of barn swallows w'as left alive in all the 

 countryside, and very few cliff swallows, while only two pairs of 

 tree swallows were seen within a radius of 15 miles. Mr. Walter 

 Heinsohn writes from Evansville, Indiana, that many dead 

 birds were found there, and that much of the country was under 

 water so that the birds that nested in the bushes had been 



