THE AUDUBON BULLETIN y 



made thrush study difficult, but the music of the late afternoon was 

 something to be remembered. It hardly seems that gray-cheeked and 

 olive-backed can claim the glory of the flute-like chorus. 



If the acres of red elder were the burning bushes, surely the ground 

 was hallowed with mosses, fruiting marchantia, club mosses, trailing 

 arbutus, partridge blossom and berry, wintergreen, bunch berry, small 

 pink orchis, shin leaf, pitcher plant, tall yellow buttercup, twin flower, 

 oak and maidenhair ferns. Sensitive ostrich, and lady ferns were the 

 persistent garden weeds. 



Be you botanist, Finn, geologist, or ornithologist, this is a region 

 well worth investigation. Take "Michigan Bird Life" with you when 

 you go. Walter Bradford Barrows is the author. It is a publication 

 of the Michigan Agricultural College and is the most delightful, helpful 

 and exhaustive state publication on birds I have seen. 



— Esther A. Craigmile 



From the Illinois Sportsman 



Shooting from sinkboxes and There is no open season on quail, 



from artificial blinds is now pro- prairie chickens, and turtle doves 



hibited in Minnesota. in Iowa. 



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Hunting in all state lands is Wild turkeys are protected un- 

 prohibited in Alabama. til 1928 in Tennessee. 



In Pennsylvania persons physi- The closed season on quail, 

 cally and mentally unfit to carry pheasants and doves has been ex- 

 firearms are denied hunting li- tended to 1930 in Colorado, 

 censes. 



Birds as Destroyers of Gall Insects 



{Illustrations by Carl F. Groneman) 



UNDOUBTEDLY many bird students, while studying their feath- 

 ered friends, have been attracted by the abnormal growths 

 frequently found on trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants, 

 which are called galls. 



These curious malformations owe their origin principallv to insects 

 such as midges, aphids, wasps, moths, beetles, and their close allies, the 

 plant mites. Insect galls are the most common, and are often very 

 conspicuous in form and color. 



