INTRODUCTION 
The Great Basin is an elevated region between the Wasatch 
and Sierra Nevada Mountains that has no drainage to the ocean. It 
includes most of Nevada, about a third of Utah, and parts of Cali- 
fornia, Idaho, Wyoming, and Oregon. For the purposes of this leaf- 
let the scope of the term is limited to Utah and Nevada, but the 
fruits recommended no doubt are especially suitable for parts of the 
Great Basin lying in neighboring States. 
Table 1 shows groups of fleshy fruits most attractive to 
birds throughout the United States and lists desirable kinds of 
birds most fond of the fruit. No barberries, currants, or buck- 
thorns are listed, because they harbor rusts destructive to plants 
of economic importance. Juniners are in almost the same category, 
as they serve as alternate hosts for apple rust, but there is no 
reason why they cannot be used in districts where apples are not 
commercially grown, as they are among the most valuable plants for 
wildlife. Omitted also are plants poisonous to man on contact, as 
poison ivy and poison sumac, as well as various kinds dangerously 
poisonous to domestic animals, as yews, wild cherries, and night- 
shades, in spite of the fact that wild cherries are greatly relished 
by birds. Browsing animals are know to have been killed by feeding 
on the leaves of wild cherries but do not seem to be so seriously 
affected by those of plums. Certain plants included among fleshy 
fruit bearers in previous publications have been transferred to the 
list of seed producers, hence do not appear in the present series 
of leaflets. These include magnolia (Magnolia), bittersweet 
(Celastrus), and burningbush (Euonymus). 
It should be noted that the iruit-bearing seasons recorded, 
being collected from varied sources, tend to be maxima. As a rule 
they are not likely to be realized or even approached in a single 
locality unless numerous specimens of a #iven species are present 
and so distributed in sun and shade as to favor both early and late 
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The word "extrelimital" as here used in the heading of 
table 4 covers plants from other States or regions of the United 
States as well as wholly introduced, exotic, or foreign plants. 
