STRIKING THE BALANCE 



115 



that portion which can be considered to the bird's 

 discredit. The hawks and owls are not given here, 

 as a table for them has been given in Chapter IX. 

 The figures represent the per cent of the total food 

 for the year that any item forms. 



TABLE OF FOOD OF A FEW COMMON BIRDS 



Name of bird 



Crow-blackbird 



Red-winged black- 

 bird 



Bluebird 



Bob-white 



Cardinal 



Catbird 



Cedar-bird 



Cowbird 



Crow 



Cuckoo 



Mourning dove 



Flicker 



Crested flycatcher . . . 



Least flycatcher 



Rose-breasted gros- 

 beak 



Blue jay 



Junco 



Kingbird 



Horned lark 



Meadowlark. 



Baltimore oriole 



"Wood pewee 



Phcebe 



Robin 



Chipping sparrow . . 



English sparrow 



Field sparrow 



Song sparrow 



Vesper sparrow 



Brown thrasher 



Wood thrush 



Downy woodpecker. , 



Hairy woodpecker. . . 



Red-headed wood' 

 pecker 



House wren 



To bird's credit 



20 

 47 

 10 

 24 

 12 

 10 

 20 

 16 



5.5 

 70 

 62 



45 



19 



17 



50, 



15 



56 



58 



56 



51 



88 



28 



SO 

 18 

 22 

 38 

 38 



50 

 36 



53 



24. 



40 



50 



42 



hfe! 



77 

 47 

 60 

 60 

 12 

 10 

 80 

 16 

 88 

 64 

 55 

 70 

 52 



61 

 19 



79 

 50 

 79' 

 63 

 58 

 56 

 51 

 83 

 81 

 24' 

 70 

 68 

 64 

 33 



72 

 21 



To bird's discredit 



<3 -5 



19 

 IS 



•II 



22 

 7 



"s 



4 



8 

 12 



2 



74 



4 



2 



'8 5 I 



2 

 3 

 IS 



5 

 4 



11 

 10 



£5 

 si 



12 

 9 

 5 

 6 



22 

 13 



8 

 3 

 3 

 IS 



7 

 15 



4 

 IS 



2 

 15 



ii 



10 



14 

 3 



74 

 8 

 4 

 8 



19 

 6 

 3 

 2 



16 



