14 Timehri. 
Where trees occur along the dams, often they give but very insufficient accom- 
modation for bird life, being too large and scattered to be of much use to the 
smaller kinds ; and across the mass of the cultivation the distances are too great 
to allow of much close scrutiny of the higher canes. Closer and more bushy 
growths are essential to secure the presence of the smaller kinds, which are of so 
much importance in dealing especially with the moths of the small borer, The 
wrens, the rootie, the cotton bird, the smaller kiskadi, the solitary shrike 
(flycatcher) and others, moving about among the grass and bush on the dams, 
and about the cane-fields, disturb and secure numbers of theselittle pests, besides 
others ; but scarcity of suitable shelter and cover renders their help but of the 
smallest , compared with what it might be. 
However efficient the catching of moths may be by gangs or lights, or the 
cutting out of borers, with other remedial measures, it can at the best 
be but an incomplete control; and considering the heavy expenditure 
incurred, it is obviously the wisest procedure to bring into fullest 
operation the greatest natural assistance in protecting the cultivation from 
the attacks of such pests. The ravages of the small moth-borer are sufficiently 
serious already : the added danger from the giant moth-borer, especially con- 
sidering its rapid and wide distribution over the estates generally, and _ its 
sudden and severe dev elopment, surely calls for such action. 
A list of the Insects and Birds referred to. 
Giant moth-borer 
Small moth-borer 
Weevil-borer 
Mealy-bug 
. .Casinia licus 
. Diatrea saccharalis 
. .Sphenophorus sericeus 
. .Pseudo-coccus calceolarie 
Frog-hopper .. Tomaspis sp. 
Small hardback .. . .Dyscinetus bidentatus 
Larger hardback .. Ligyrus ebenus 
Cocoa-nut root-borer . .Strategus aleus 
Rough root-borer . .Phileurus bajulus 
Gru-gru ‘ 
Pemon barred elie ken- haw 
Cream-headed chicken-hawk 
Criketty-hawk 
Red crab-hawk .. 
Common kiskadi 
Smaller kiskadi 
Solitary tyrant-shrike 
Common mufj-bird 
. .Rhynchophorus palmarum 
. .Rupornis magnirostris 
. . Milvago chimachima 
. Rostrhamus sociabilis 
..Busarellus nigricollis 
itangus sulphuratus 
. .Pitangus lictor 
.. Tyrannus melancholicus 
. .Blainca pagana 
Old wite . .Crotophaga ani 
Common wren Pe .. Trogl dytes furvus 
Rootie gt A . Synallawis quianensis 
Cotton-bird 
, . Fluvicola pica 
