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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pab. Doc. 



Chipping sparrow, 

 Field sparrow, 

 Song sparrow. 

 Rose- breasted grosbeak. 

 Indigo bunting, 

 English sparrow, 

 Scarlet tanager, 

 Red-eyed vireo. 

 Yellow-throated vireo, 

 ^^'arbling vireo, 



Golden-winged warbler, 

 Nashville warbler, 

 Yellow warbler. 

 Chestnut-sided warbler, 

 American redstart, 

 Catbird, 

 Chickadee, 

 Wood thrush, 

 American robin. 



Birds feeding on the Forest Tent Caterpillar (Clisiocampa 

 disstria, Hubn.). 

 Twentj^-tive species of birds are now known to attack this 

 insect. In connection with a list of birds given by Dr. 

 Felt as feeding on this caterpillar, he quotes Miss Caroline 

 G. Soule of Brookline to the effect that nuthatches become 

 so absorbed in feeding on masses of these caterpillars that 

 they would allow her to approach and touch them. In our 

 experience, however, the nuthatches seem not particularly 

 fond of these larvoe, bat this only illustrates how individuals 

 of the same species acquire different tastes. Our observa- 

 tions have often shown that one individual of a species may 

 reject as food that which another of the same species will 

 devour with avidity. All of the species given, except the 

 English sparrow, feed on the caterpillars. This sparrow, 

 however, catches some of the flying moths. These are no 

 doubt eaten by many birds not in this list. 



Yellow-billed cuckoo. 



Black-billed cuckoo, 



Yellow-bellied sapsucker, 



Flicker, 



Blue jay, 



Crow, 



Baltimore oriole. 



Bronzed grackle or crow 



blackbird, 

 Chipping sparrow, 

 Towhee, 



English sparrow. 

 Scarlet tanager, 



Red-eyed vireo, 

 Warbling vireo, 

 White-eyed vireo. 

 Black-and-white warl)ler. 

 Golden-winged warbler, 

 Yellow warbler, 

 American redstart, 

 Catbird, 



White-breasted nuthatch, 

 Chickadee, 

 W^ood thrush, 

 American roljin, 

 Cedar waxwins. 



