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the nest before he stopped. The bird ate them all, and did not drop 
one. Then he went to the tree, in which I believe he remained during 
the night, for on Saturday, the 11th, I found the bird in the same 
tree and in almost the same place at 5 A.M. 
The orioles, chickadees and vireos often pecked the cater- 
pillars to pieces and ate portions of them, seemingly feeding 
to a considerable extent on the internal organs. This being 
the case, it 1s quite evident that the stomach contents cannot 
be depended upon entirely to determine the character of the 
food of these birds, as no one is expert enough to identify 
the internal organs of caterpillars with such certainty as to 
determine the species to which they belong. 
The following is a list of the birds seen feeding on the tent 
caterpillar: crow, chickadee, oriole, red-eyed vireo, yellow- 
billed cuckoo, black-billed cuckoo, chipping sparrow and 
yellow warbler. 
During the month of May an attempt was made to render 
the place as attractive to birds as possible. The undergrowth, 
which previous to 1894 had been trimmed out, was afterward 
allowed to grow, and in 1895 several low thickets had been 
thus formed; the mulberry trees were stimulated by judi- 
cious trimming, and bore a considerable crop of early fruit 
which ripened in advance of the cherries, thus drawing the 
attention of the fruit-eating birds away from the cherries, 
and serving to attract them to the vicinity of the orchard. 
Ten nesting boxes were put up for the wrens and bluebirds; 
but as the bluebirds were very rare this season, none came 
to the orchard.t| Two families of wrens, however, were 
reared in the boxes in place of one family in 1894. Nesting 
materials — strings, hair and straw — were hung in the trees 
and scattered about. Several marauding eats were killed, and 
an attempt was made to keep nest-hunting boys away from 
the neighborhood as much as possible. Thirty-six nests of 
birds were discovered in the neighborhood, as follows: three 
red-eyed vireos, ten robins, four Baltimore orioles, three 
cuckoos, five chipping sparrows, three least flycatchers, two 
redstarts, two yellow warblers, two chickadees and two house 
wrens. 
1 The winter of 1894-95 was very destructive to bluebirds in the South. 
