MYRTLE WARBLER
(Dendroica coronata)
RUSSET-BACKED THRUSH
(Hylocichla ustulats)
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Length, five and onehalf inches.
iThe similarly colored Audubon's war
jbler has a yellow throat instead of a
iwhite one.
| Range: Breeds throughout most of
_'the forested area of Canada and south
to Minnesota, Michigan. New York,
‘and ‘Massachusetts; winters in the
southern two-thirds of the United
States and south to Panama.
' Habits and economic status: This
member of our beautiful wood warbler
‘family, a family peculiar to America,
has the characteristic voice, colora-
tion, and habits of its kind. Trim of
form and graceful of motion, when
seeking food it combines the methods
‘of the wrens, creepers, and flycatch-
ers. It breeds only in the northern
parts of the eastern United States,
‘but in migration it occurs in every
patch of woodland and is so numerous
‘that it is familiar to every observer.
Its place is taken in the West by
‘Audubon’s warbler. More than three:
fourths of the food of the 1::yrtle war-
bler consists of insects, practically all
‘of them harmful. It is made up of
‘small beetles, including some weevils,
ywith many ants and wasps. This bird
lis so small and nimble that it success.
ifully attacks insects too minute to be
,prey for larger. birds. Scales and
iplant lice form a very considerable
part of its diet. Flies are the largest
dtem of food; in fact, only a few fly-
catchers and swallows eat as many
flies as this bird. The vegetable food
{(22 per cent) is made up of fruit and
the seeds of poison oak or ivy, also
‘the seeds of pine and of the bayberry.
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO
(Coccyzus americanus)
Length, about twelve inches. The
yellow lower part of the bill distin-
guishes this bird from its near rela-
tive, the black-billed cuckoo.
Range: Breeds generally in the
United States and southern Canada;
winters in South America.
Habits and economic status: This
‘ bird lives on the edges of woodland,
in groves, orchards, parks, and evea
in shaded village streets. It is some-
times known as rain crow, because its
very characteristic notes are supposed
to foretell rain. The cuckoo has sly,
furtive ways as it moves among the
bushes or flits from tree to tree, and
is much more often heard than seen.
Unlike its European relative, it does
not lay its eggs in other birds’ nests,
but builds a nest of its own. This is,
however, a rather crude and shabby
affair—hardly more than a platform
of twigs sufficient to hold the green-
ish eggs. The cuckoo is extremely
useful because of its insectivorous hab-
its, especially as it shows a marked
preference for the hairy caterpillars,
which few birds eat. One stomach
that was examined contained 250
American tent caterpillars; another,
217 fall webworms. In places where
tent caterpillars are abundant they
seem to constitute a large portion of
the food of this and the black-billed
cuckoo,
No Commendation.
“You seem to think a great deal of
that candidate.”
“How do you arrive at that conclu-
sion?” asked Senator Sorghum.
“Why, you have always supported
him.”
“Yes; but a public man’s attitude
toward a candidate may be that of the
family toward the head of the house.
You don’t necessarily think any more
of a man bezzuse you've got to sup-
oort him.”
© Length, seven and one-fourth inches
:Among thrushes having the top ol
head and tail nearly the same colo!
jas the back, this one is distinguishe¢
tby its tawny eye-ring and cheeks. The
Pacific coast subspecies is russel
:brown above, while the other subspe
cies is the olive-backed thrush. The
jremarks below apply to the species as
ia, whole.
; Range: Breeds in the forested parts
,of Alaska and Canada and south to
iCalifornia, Colorado, Michigan, New
.York, West Virginia (mountains), and
‘Maine; winters from Mexico to South
‘America.
Habits and economic status: This
is one of a small group of thrushes
‘the members of which are by many
‘ranked first among American song
ibirds. The several members resem:
ble one another in size, plumage, and
‘habits. ‘While this thrush is very fond
of fruit, its partiality for the neighbor
thood streams keeps it from frequent:
ling orchards far from water. It is
‘most troublesome during the cherry
season, when the young are in the
nest. From this it might be inferred
that the young are fed on fruit, but
such is not the case. The adults eat
fruit, but the nestlings, as usual, are
fed mostly upon insects. Beetles con:
stitute the largest item of animal food,
and ants come next. }any caterpil
lars also are eaten. Tle great bulk
of vegetable food consi:‘s of fruit, of
which two-fifths is of cu'tivated vari:
eties. Where these birds live in or
near gardens or orchards, they mav
do conciderable damage, but they ara
too valuable as insect destroyers to
be killed if the fruit can be protected
in any other way.
CATBIRD
(Dumetella carolinensis)
Length, about nine inches. The
slaty gray plumage and black cap and
tail are distinctive.
Range: Breeds throughout the
United States west to New Mexico,
Utah, Oregon, and Washington, and
in southern Canada; winters from the
gulf states to Panama.
Habits and economic status: In
many localities the catbird is one of
the commonest birds. Tangled
growths are its favorite nesting places
and retreats, but berry patches and
ornamental shrubbery are not dis
dained. Hence the bird is a familiar
dooryard visitor. The bird has a fine
song, unfortunately marred by occa:
‘sional cat calls. With habits similar
to those of the mocking bird and a
song almost as varied, the catbird has
never secured a similar place in pop
ular favor, Half of its food consists
of fruit, and the cultivated crops most
often injured are cherries, strawber-
ries, raspberries, and blackberries.
Beetles, ants, crickets, and grasshop-
pers are the most important element
of its animal food. The bird is known
to attack a few pests, as cutworms,
leaf beetles, clover-root curculio, and
the periodical cicada, but the good it
does in this way probably does not
pay for the fruit it steals. The ex-
tent to which it should be protected
may perhaps be left to the individual
cultivator; that is, it should be made
lawful to destroy catbirds that are do-
ing manifest damage to crops.
As She Remembered It.
Miss Blanche Johnson, Sunday
school teacher of a primary class at
Hope Chapel, Nineteenth street and
Washington avenue N, Minneapolis,
is wondering whether her efforts to:
ward uplifting humanity are worth
while,
In a recent lesson she told the chil-
dren how Moses had led the Israelites
to the land of Canaan, guided through
the wilderness at night by a pillar of
fire.
The next Sunday she asked the chil-
dren what the previous lesson was
about. An intelligent-appearing little
girl raised her hand and answered:
“The Israelites were led into the land
of Canaan by a caterpillar.”—Wash-
ington Post.
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Rippling Rhymes.
The rush of the crowded city seems
fierce to the rural clown, and he thinks
it a beastly pity that people must live
in town, to toil o’er the pave of gran-
ite, hemmed in by the walls of brick,
while over this sunlit planet the roses
the rustic stranger, “how luckless the
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The Lehigh Valley Coal Company will
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Under the management of a good compe-
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