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No. 3. GRAIN GROUP: ] Any kind of grain as: 



Ruffed grouse Oats 



Quail Wheat 



Partridge |> Rye 



Pheasant Barley 



Lapland longspur Buckwheat 



Shore lark j Cracked corn 



No. 4. FRUIT: ] This is a Southern group. Will 



Robin I eat oranges, figs, grapes and almost 



Mocking bird [ any other fresh fruit, also, some- 

 Catbird and most other thrushes j times, bread and milk. 



BERRY-BEARING SHRUBS, VINES AND TREES FOR THE 



BIRDS 



Another way, and a very effective one of attracting birds, is to 

 plant berry-bearing shrubs, trees and vines. The robins, starlings, 

 thrushes, cedar birds, mocking birds, in fact most so-called soft billed 

 birds, will eat berries, and some of the finches and sparrows will pick 

 them open to get at the seeds. 



Many of the migrating birds will stay about a place, where there 

 is an abundance of berry-bearers and an allowance of suet and seeds, 

 much later than they ordinarily would stay. 



For example here in Northern Jersey as I write this in the last of 

 October, there are great flocks of robins and thrushes hurrying to cull 

 the very last of my Mountain Ash and Dogwood berries, before theygo 

 away South. 



Last year one robin stayed with us all Winter eating the Japanese 

 Barberries. There is also a pair of chewinks still here, while back in 

 the woods they have 'been .gone for at least three weeks. I should 

 head the list of berry-bearers with such trees as the Mountain Ash, 

 Dogwood, various wild Cherries and Cedars, Junipers, and other berry- 

 bearing evergreens. These are especially beloved by the birds. A 

 list of shrubs should include the shrubby Dogwoods, such as the Cor- 

 nelian Cherry, Red Osier, etc.; many of the Viburnums, and Ilexes, 

 all the Vacciniums (that is, Blueberries, Cranberries and Deerberries) 

 some of the Loniceras and Cratsegus or Hawthorns, Aronias, Calli- 

 carpa, Enkianthus, Ribes, Rubus, Sambucus, Phillyrea, Amelanchier 

 and Symphoricarpus, and be sure and save a shady nook for a clump 

 of Mahonia and Cotoneaster. Last but not least we put the Bar- 

 berries, for the reason that the birds will eat everything else first. 

 Then when all the rest of the berries are gone they will settle down to 

 the sour, bitter berries of Berberis Thunbergii. Berberis vulgaris is 

 also very good, but the birds will eat its fruit earlier for the clear, sour 



