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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF BIRDS 
rats and mice, rabbits, the mongoose, ferrets, stoats, weasels, 
flying foxes or fruit bats, the English sparrow, the starling, 
the mina, the kohlmeise or great titmouse, the skylark, the 
green linnet, and the black thrush; need of legislation; sum- 
mary. 
1899. Osgood, Fletcher. The So-called Sparrow War in 
Boston. Bird Lore, v. I, pp. 137-138. 
Account of the campaign against English sparrows in Bos- 
ton in the spring of 1898. 
1899. O. J. L. Martins Kill the Caterpillars. The Wilson Bul- 
letin, v. XI, O. S. No. '27, July 30, 1899, pp. GO, 61. 
Built a martin house in orchard; this was soon filled; kept 
caterpillars and moths from orchard. 
1899. Soule, Caroline G. Birds and Caterpillars. Bird 
Lore, v. I, p. 1GG. 
Notes on birds attacking forest tent caterpillars ( Clisio - 
campa disstria) in Vermont. 
1899. Weed, Clarence Moores. Our Winter Birds in Their 
Food Relations. The Granite Monthly, v. XXVI, 
pp. 77-82. 
Food of pine grosbeak, purple finch, junco, chickadee, nut- 
hatches, brown creeper, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and 
ruffed grouse. 
1900. Bailey, Vernon. Where the Grebe Skins Come From. 
Bird Lore, v. II, p. 34. 
Destruction of grebes in California and Oregon to supply 
demands of fashion. 
1900. Burns, Frank L. A Monograph of the Flicker. The 
Wilson Bulletin, v. XII, O. S. No. 31, April, 1900, pp. 
3-82. 
An eighty-two page monograph bringing together what is 
known of the flicker. 
Hard to find birds with fewer harmful qualities than 
downy and hairy woodpeckers and flicker. Eats ants, cole- 
optera and other insects. 
1900. Chapman, Frank M. Bird Studies with a Camera. 
New York: I). Appleton &Co., 1900. 
