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made thrush study difficult, but the music of the late afternoon was 
something to be remembered. It hardly seems that gray-cheeked and 
olive-backed can claim the glory of the flute-like chorus. 
If the acres of red elder were the burning bushes, surely the ground 
was hallowed with mosses, fruiting marchantia, club mosses, trailing 
arbutus, partridge blossom and berry, wintergreen, bunch berry, small 
pink orchis, shin leaf, pitcher plant, tall yellow buttercup, twin flower, 
oak and maidenhair ferns. Sensitive ostrich, and lady ferns were the 
persistent garden weeds. 
Be you botanist, Finn, geologist, or ornithologist, this 1s a region 
well worth investigation. Take “Michigan Bird Life” with you when 
you go. Walter Bradford Barrows is the author. It is a publication 
of the Michigan Agricultural College and is the most delightful, helpful 
and exhaustive state publication on birds I have seen. 
—EsTHER A. CRAIGMILE 
From the Illinois Sportsman 
Shooting from sinkboxes and 
from artificial blinds is now pro- 
hibited in Minnesota. 
* Kk * 
Hunting in all state lands is 
prohibited in Alabama. 
* * * 
In Pennsylvania persons physi- 
cally and mentally unfit to carry 
firearms are denied hunting li- 
censes. 
There is no open season on quail, 
prairie chickens, and turtle doves 
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in Iowa. : 
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Wild turkeys are protected un- 
til 1928 in Tennessee. 
* OK 
The closed season on quail, 
pheasants and doves has been ex- 
tended to 1930 in Colorado. 
Birds as Destroyers of Gall Insects 
([Hustrations by Carl F. Groneman) 
ered friends, have been attracted by the abnormal growths 
| NDOUBTEDLY many bird students, while studying their feath- 
frequently found on trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants, 
which are called galls. 
These curious malformations owe their origin principally to insects 
such as midges, aphids, wasps, moths, beetles, and their close allies, the 
plant mites. 
conspicuous in form and color. 
Insect galls are the most common, and are often very 
