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pillars eaten by a Baltimore Oriole in 
a minute. 
The Crow pulls up some corn, but 
think of the thousand noxious grubs and 
insects that he destroys. The Kingbird 
eats honeybees, but for every bee that he 
slays he makes way with a thousand 
bugs. The Cedar bird works sad havoc 
amidst our ripe cherries, but during the 
autumn he devours hordes of noxious 
insects. Dr. Trimble states that the 
stomach of one Cedar bird, or Cherry 
bird, as he is sometimes called, contained 
thirty-six canker worms. 
The Purple Finch, or Linnet, destroys 
our peach buds in early spring; the 
Goldfinch eats the gardener’s seeds, and 
yet we cannot spare them. The Bobo- 
link is exceedingly destructive in the rice 
fields of the Carolinas, but we need it 
here. Edward A, Samuels says that he 
saw a pair of Robins destroy twenty-four 
and twenty-seven cutworms respectively, 
in one hour; and on another occasion 
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