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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHUpper Figure Male, Lower Figure Female BIRDS AS CONSERVATORS OF THE FOREST. 255 It is almost unnecessary to say of these birds that their food is made up ofprecisely the same element as that of the titmice, but somewhat varied in theproportions of each. Like them they eat a great many caterpillars, and the eggsfrom which caterpillars would be hatched. Small beetles, ants and bugs are alsofavorite food. Scales and spittle insects (Cercopidae) are some of the enemiesto trees of which they appear to be very fond. The particular species of theselast which they eat are probably those that feed upon the pine, as most of thestomachs in which they were found were taken in a pine forest. Of the nut-hatches Dr. Coues has said: In their relation to man, these birds are heedlessand familiar, as if they trusted to his good will in return for the valuable servicesthey render him in destroying incalculable numbers of noxious insects — a confidencetoo often abused by the vulgar

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