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that the mountain ash with its persistent fruit 

 fed upon throughout the winter by flocks of 

 robins, cedar birds, grosbeaks, purple finches, 

 and others, may attract a greater number of 

 individuals than many of those species marked 

 with two asterisks; while the gray birch with 

 the winter flocks of goldfinches, redpolls, siskins, 

 juncos, etc., that feed upon its seeds, probably 

 attracts a far greater number of birds than some 

 of those species marked with three asterisks. 



A LIST OF TREES, SHRUBS, AND VINES NA^ 

 TIVE TO NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, 

 BEARING FRUIT ATTRACTIVE TO BIRDS 



DECIDUOUS TREES 



*Acer Negundo, ash-leaved maple 



" saccharum, sugar maple; 

 and doubtless other maples, 

 including A . rubrum, red 

 maple and A. saccharinum, 

 silver maple 

 Alnus incana, smooth alder 

 " rugosa, speckled alder 



*Betula populifolia, American 

 gray birch 



*Betula lutea, yellow birch; and 

 doubtless other birches, in- 

 cluding Betula nigra, black 

 birch 



FRUITING SEASON 



September^ 



through winter 

 September- 

 October 



May-Jtme 

 September-March 

 September-March 

 September- 

 through winter 

 Octobei^through 



winter 

 May-June 



