BERRIES 



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No bird enjoys greater poptilarity, or receives a 

 heartier ■welcome in tne spring tnan the A.inerican robin. 

 Ills one iniquity, Lowever, that of destroying quantities or 

 luscious stra^vberries, cbernes and other varieties or gar- 

 den fruit. Las given him many enemies. Much of this loss 

 w^ould be prevented if -wild fruits, sucb as mulberries, 

 choke cherries ana wild cherries were grown among the 

 cultivated varieties, for all birds prefer the greater acid- 

 ity of uncultivated fruit. K.obins are also very fond of 

 sour gum, barberry, bayberry, mountain ash, red cedar, 

 bush cranberry, dogwood, nackberry, jumper, buckthorn 

 and elderberry. 



V(/ Kite-throated Sparrow 



ihe musical voice of the white-throat makes him 

 an ever welcome visitor. He Kkes the fruit of mount- 

 ain ash, barberry, black cherry, bush cranberry, dog- 

 wood, and elderberry, and both common and Japanese 

 millet seed; if a copious supply of these is provided he 

 may be induced to spend the winter months north of his 

 usual winter range. 



J^ocliinghird 



The Nightingale of America" as be is sometimes 

 called, feeds on the dried berries whicb cling to the 

 branches of the holly, dogwood, smilax, Virginia creeper, 

 black alder, juniper, barberry, buckthorn, elder, bitter- 

 sweet and bayberry. Like the brown thrasher be seeks 

 tbe protection «/" thickets and shrubbery. 



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