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etery. They were also eating the gipsy larve. There was only one 
that I could get near enough to see what and how many he was eating. 
He, in a little over three minutes, ate forty larve that I was sure of. 
Two pairs of Wilson’s Thrushes were near me nearly all the forenoon. 
They did not stay in the trees much of the time. I saw one alight on a 
small sprout on a willow and eat five gipsy moth larvee, then fly to the 
ground. They were feeding almost wholly on the hummocks among 
the bushes and grass. 
May 22.—A pair of Chickadees came to the apple tree and stayed 
seven minutes. One ate fifteen and the other twenty-one brown-tail 
Jarve. They must have eaten more than twice that number, for they 
were not so we could see them nearly all of the time, but we could see 
that they were busy. Mr. Kirkland observed one, and I the other. A 
Yellow-throated Vireo came to the tree and ate three brown-tail larvx 
as he passed through: 
May 23.— A Robin was in the apple tree when I got there, but flew 
away. Soon she came back and foraged on the ground for a while, 
then went to the apple tree and to a fork near the top where the brown- 
tail larve were congregated in great numbers, picked into the mass 
and swallowed them. I saw her take eight mouthfuls. The next 
bird to come was a Red-eyed Vireo. He confined himself to the 
branches where the larvae were comparatively scarce, and went. about 
picking them from the leaves. J saw him take forty-three brown-tails 
in ten minutes. He stayed longer than that, but changéd to the oppo- 
site side of the tree, so I could not see him. He was finally driven out 
by an English Sparrow. <A Yellow Warbler passed through the tree 
and stopped fora moment. I saw him take six brown-tail larve. The 
next visitor was a Blue Jay. He came in a very noisy manner, and 
perched on one of the upper branches.. He looked suspiciously at me 
for a few seconds, then went to feeding on the larve. He hopped 
from one branch to another, and took them from the forks where they 
were clustered. I could not count how many he ate, but there were at 
least thirty brown-tails. A female Chestnut-sided Warbler came into 
the tree and ate eleven brown-tails, when she was followed by the 
male. He would eat one or two, then chase his mate through the apple 
tree and the adjoining trees. They were in and out of the tree, back 
and forth, for nearly twenty minutes. A Chipping Sparrow came to 
one of the upper branclies and took a larva, flew to the ledge near me, 
hammered it, and ate it, swallowing it whole. She then flew back, took 
another, flew to a lower branch with it, and ate it in the same way. 
Then she flew away. 
May 24.— A Black-billed Cuckoo came to the apple tree that has a 
tent caterpillars’ nest in it, pulled open the web and took two caterpil- 
lars from it, when he was seen by a Kingbird and chased out. The 
Kingbird went to the nest and pulled out a mouthful of web and took it 
away to its nest. A male Oriole came soon afterward, and took three 
