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observed eating hairy caterpillars * in Massachusetts and the 

 remaining 8 related more northern species would without doubt 

 have the same habit. Any bird that will eat a hairy caterpillar 

 will take a naked caterpillar like the saddled prominent with 

 relish. 



Yellow Billed Cuckoo, Black Billed Cuckoo, Hairy Wood- 

 pecker,** Downy Woodpecker,** Yellow Billed Sapsucker, 

 Northern Flicker,** Kingbird,** Crested Flycatcher, Least Fly- 

 catcher, Phoebe, Wood Pewee, Blue Jay, American Crow,** 

 Red Winged Blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, Bronzed Grackle, 

 Wdiite Throat Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow,*** Song Sparrow,** 

 Field Sparrow, Junco,** Towhee, Rose Breasted Grosbeak, 

 Indigo Bunting, Scarlet Tanager, Cedar Waxwing,** Red-Eye 

 Vireo,*** Warbling Vireo, Solitary Vireo,*** Yellow Throat 

 Vireo, Black and White Warbler,** Nashville Warbler, North- 

 ern Parula Warbler, Yellow Warbler,** Black Throated Green 

 Warbler, Black Throated Blue Warbler, Myrtle Warbler, Mag- 

 nolia Warbler, Chestnut Sided Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern 

 Yellow Throat, Northern Water Thrush,** Redstart, Catbird, 

 Brown Thrasher, Winter Wren, White Breasted Nuthatch, Red 

 Breasted Nuthatch,** Chicadee,** Wilson's Thrush,** Hermit 

 Thrush,** Robin,*** Bluebird. 



In recording the efficiency of birds as natural enemies to the 

 saddled prominent and other caterpillars, the domestic fowls 

 should not be scorned. Turkeys and hens though not applicable 

 to forest conditions are exceedingly helpful in the orchard or 

 about shade trees. By way of example may be cited a hen of 

 Buckfield which ate without much pause 60 of the caterpillars 

 which dropped from a tree that was given a sharp rap. A case 

 to the point also is recorded by State Entomologist E. F. 

 Hitchings * concerning a chicken weighing when dressed 1 3-4 

 pounds. The crop of the little fowl was so distended that its 

 contents were examined curiously and were found to consist of 

 75 full grown caterpillars compactly disposed. 



* Forbush, E. H. Useful Birds and Their Protection. 

 ** Seen in stripped woodlands in Maine. 



*** Actually observed feeding on saddled prominent. 



* Maine Dept. of Agric, Augusta. Circular of Information on Forest 

 Insects, 1908. 



