TABLE 1. - Groups of fleshy fruits most attractive to birds throughout the 
United States--—Continued 
Name of fruit 
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vO aus 
MUCKLEDEPLY «cscs 
MME DSI \e/c's < vis 0 6 
Beautyberry eesve8e 
Partridgeberry ... 
PEA OI DEI o)6 4 cle, « 
Snowberry, coral- 
berry 
Blackhaw, cran- 
berryoush 
Honeysuckle ....e. 
eo ©8 ef &% se feo oe 
oe 00 ©& ©€8 ee 08 #8 &©% 89 os 06 88 8% 88 98 ee se oe 
ee 88 60 98 oe oF 
Generic 
Gaultheria .. 
Gaylussacia . 
Vaccinium ... 
mGalsluearpay 5) 
Mitchella’... 
Sambucus’ 
Symphoricarpos 
Viburnum eooe- 
Lonicera 
oo 600 
ee ee ee 69 of safes eo 
ee ee ee ee eo 88 8 se e@¢ ee 08 08 oF ee eo ef ee ee ee ee eo @6 ge’ e*% 
eo © 88 08 06 se ae 
Species of birds known to eat the fruit 
Num-= 
ber 
10 
46 
935 
yaad 
10 
plats) 
33 
30 » 
18 
Desirable kinds most fond of the fruit 
Ruffed grouse, wren tit. 
Robin, pine grosbeak, towhee. 
Ruffed grouse, valley quail, eastern 
kingbird, black-capped chickadee, tufted 
; titmouse, catbird, brovm thrasher, robin, 
; hermit thrush, eastern bluebird,* cedar 
: waxwing, orchard oriole, pine grosbeak, 
towhee. 
DOS OL ORT Tei 
Mockingbird, brown thrasher. 
: Ruffed grouse. 
: Valley quail, flicker, red-headed wood- 
> pecker, eastern and Arkansas kingbirds, 
: black phoebe, wren tit, mockingbird, 
: catbird, brown and California thrashers, 
> robin, olive-backed thrush, eastern and 
; western bluebirds, phainopepla, red- 
: eyed vireo, rose-breasted and bdlack- 
; headed grosbeaks, California towhee, 
white-crowned sparrow. 
Sharp-tailed grouse, varied thrush, 
evening and pine grosbeaks. 
Ruffed grouse, yellow-billed cuckoo, 
: flicker, catbird, brown thrasher, robin, 
: eastern bluebird, cedar waxwing, rose- 
breasted grosbeak, purple finch. 
: Bobwhite, catbird, brown thrasher, robin, 
: hermit thrush, pine grosbeak, white- 
; throated sparrow. 
i/ Barberries (Berberis), buckthorns (Rhamus), and currants (Ribes) are omitted 
because they serve as alternate hosts of rusts, attacking wheat, oats, and white pine, 
respectively. Yews (Taxus), 
are omitted as being dangerous stock poisoning plents. 
/ 
2/ 
When 10 or more. 
wild cherries (Prunus), and nightshades (Solanum) also 
3/ Carries apple rust; should not be planted near valuable orchards. 
4) 
— Only nonpoisonous species of sumac ere considered. 
/ 
5 = A < . 5 ~ > ~ 
2/ Data given ere based entirely on field observations; total nwaber of birds 
Gating the various species of Blaeagnus unknown. 
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