eyed Vireo, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black-billed Cuckoo, Chipping 
Sparrow and Yellow Warbler. 
Birds that eat the cut worm (which eats off corn, &c., before it 
as fairly started in the spring, and is very destructive to grass) are 
the Robin, Crow, Catbird, Loggerhead Shrike, House Wren, 
Meadowlark, Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole, Brown Thrasher and 
Red-winged Blackbird. 
Ants (which spread plant-lice, destroy timber and ihfest. 
houses) are the favorite food of the Catbird, Thrasher, House 
Wren and Woodpeckers. Ants are eaten by almost all land birds 
except birds of prey. 
Scale insects (which are a fruit-tree pest, injure oranges, olives, 
&e.) are eaten by the Bush Tit, Woodpeckers and Oedarbird. 
The May beetle (which ravages forest trees, also injures grain 
and grass lands) is eaten by the Hermit Thrash, Wood Thrush, 
Robin, Meadowlark, Brown Thrasher, Bluebird, Catbird, Bluejay, 
Crow Blackbird, Crow, Loggerhead Shrike, Mockingbird and Gray- 
cheeked Thrush. 
Weevils (which injure grain, forage and market gardens) are 
eaten by the Crow Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbuxl, Baltimore 
Oriole, Catbird, Brown Thrasher, House Wren, Meadowlark, Cow- 
bird, Bluebird, Robin, Swallows, Flycatchers, Mockingbird, Wood¬ 
peckers, Wood Thrush and Scarlet Tanager. 
The chinch-bug (which eats grain and wheat) is eaten lay the 
Brown Thrasher, Meadowlark, Catbird, Red-eyed Vireo-, Robin 
and Bob White. 
The wire worm (which causes heavy losses in the cornfield) is 
eaten by the Red-winged Blackbird, Crow Blackbird, Crow, Wood¬ 
peckers, Brown Thrasher, Scarlet Tanager, Robin, Catbird, Balti¬ 
more Oriole, Meadowlark and Cowbird. 
Crane flies (which eat grass roots in the hayfields) are eaten 
by the Robin, Catbird, Wood Thrush, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Olive- 
backed Thrush, Crow, Crow Blackbird and Red-winged Blackbird. 
The soldier bug is eaten by the Robin, Bluebird, Crow Black¬ 
bird, Crow, Catbird, House Wren, Red-winged Blackbird, Balti¬ 
more Oriole- and Meadowlark. 
Birds that eat the cotton worm are the Bluebird, Bluejay, Red¬ 
winged Blackbird, Thrush, Quail, Killdeer, Bobolink, Mocking¬ 
bird, Cardinal and Cuckoo. 
Gypsy Moth.—Mr. Forbush, Ornithologist of the Massachusetts 
