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the islands of the Great Salt Lake and began to devour the 

 crickets. The strangest part of the story is that the Gulls, 

 after filling their crops, would go to the streams and after 

 drinking some water, would disgorge, and then return to 

 the feast. After a few days the fields were rid of the crick- 

 ets and the Gulls returned to their island homes. To this 

 day the pioneers delight to tell how they were saved from 

 starvation by the intervention of God in their behalf. "Both 

 sentiment and law prevent people from killing the Gulls. In 

 fact, when these white-winged birds are seen, they inspire 

 a. feeling of reverence.'-' On October i, 1913, a monument 

 to the Gulls was unveiled in Salt Lake City. One side of 

 it bears a bronze tablet with the following inscription : 



SEA GULL MONUMENT 



* ERECTED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE * 



* OE THE MERCY OE COD * 

 TO THE MORMON PIONEERS * 



3. The following quotations are from Mr. Edward 

 Forbush of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture : 



"I once noticed that in an orchard infested by canker 

 worms, those trees nearest some woods were soon cleared 

 of these worms, mainly by Warblers which came from the 

 woods and sprout land to feed upon them." 



"The enormous numbers of insects that breeding War- 

 blers must secure to feed their young may be inferred from 

 the fact that each young bird requires fully half its own 

 weight of insects each day. As the young' are fed very 

 largely on caterpillars, and as they are reared at a time 

 when these insects are most plentiful, there is no doubt re- 

 garding the restraining influence exerted upon the increase 



