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then, the coming of the birds, and protect them after they 

 are with you by insisting that they shall not be molested, 

 neither as to their nests nor as to themselves. Insure a 

 bird's personal safety, and he will stay with you and will 

 bring along his family and a host of relatives besides. 



Other insect pests of the beetle kind and their de- 

 stroyers might be mentioned: 



Potato beetle 



Rose-breasted grosbeak 



Mongolian pheasant 



(lately introduced) 



Weevils and leaf beetles 



Yellow-billed and black- 

 billed cuckoos 

 Sparrows 

 Phoebes 



Quail 



Yellow-billed and 

 billed cuckoo 



black- 



Towhees 

 Kingbirds 

 English sparrows 

 Red-winged blackbirds 



Twelve -spotted cucumber beetle 



Quails Prairie chickens 



Grubs of various kinds, principally of May beetles 



Domestic fowls Robins 



Blackbirds 



Click beetles 



Flickers 

 Phoebes 

 Baltimore orioles 



May beetles 



Blue jays 



Borers 



Downy woodpeckers 

 Hairy woodpeckers 



Kingbirds 

 Yellow-billed and 

 billed cuckoos 



black- 



Flickers 



