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Fall, winter John’s wort, 
July Goumie, Elaeagnus longipes. 
‘Nearly all the winter birds, from*the kinglet to the crow, eat 
the barberry,”’ says Mr. Forbush, who is State Ornithologist of 
usetts 
and ae 
Blu een aac wild cherries, sumachs, poke-berry and elder- 
berries 
Cuckoos eames and elder: 
Ori ash, wild iene: and service-berries. 
Pine ene select ponies, pines, cedar, spruces, tamarack, 
maples and mountain as 
Grackles favor elders and mountain ash. 
Blueberries suit the chewink. 
Cardinals partake of red cedar, catbrier, bittersweet, sumachs 
and haws. 
Rose-breasted grosbeaks like buds and blossoms of all fruit 
trees and seed of alders and birches. 
Thrushes eat small fruits and Virginia creep 
Purple finch fares equally well on seeds of a ash or berries 
of red cedar and mountain as. 
. eee 
ds, oleaster, mountain ash, sheep- 
cae Ueber wild drewn Gaba e and of course cedar. 
Of the vireo oO 
ash, 
ane aia spice-bush, roainerfiee ceiaee ries and vi- 
bur 
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e fora the 
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hairy . Sinactey Vireinia creeper, and dogwoods; the ame of 
