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Title: The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 National Geographic Society (U.S.) Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 Kennard, Frederic Hedge, 1865- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Shiras, George, 1859-1942
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: Washington, D.C., National geographic society

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rowth to be used forcover, choose those berry-bearing treesand shrubs whose berries are most popu-lar with the birds; and. when possible,choose also those that may offer mostconvenient sites for nest-buildins:. SOME USEFUL FOOD PLANTS Care must also be taken in the choiceof species, so as to get, if possible, a con-tinuous supply of food, using such plantsas the cherry, mulberry, raspberry, blue-berry, huckleberry, etc., for the summersupply; elder and the various kinds ofdogwood and viburnum, etc., for autumn ;while for winter choose those plantswhich hold their fruit longest, such asthe hawthorn, buckthorn, mountain ash,barberry, bayberry, sumach, wild rose,and the like. Hedges, particularly if they are ever-green, are favorite resorts for birds, bothin winter and summer, and an arbor-vitaehedge is the best of them all. I remem-ber such a hedge about one side of myfathers old - fashioned garden that insummer invariably held its quota of rob-ins, song sparrows, and chipping spar- i66
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Photograph by Ernest Harold Baynes PINE SISKINS AND RED POLLS FEEDING ABOUT A HOUSE: NEW HAMPSHIRE The pine siskin is a lover of evergreens and spends the winter vi^andering from copseto copse in search of seeds and pine cones. The red poll is a winter visitor from the farNorth, and with its rich crimson head and breast makes a pretty picture in the snow. rows nests, while in winter it was theprotected resort of such birds as stayedwith us. In the Year Book of the Departmentof Agriculture for 1909 there is a mostinteresting article on Plants Useful toAttract Birds and Protect Fruit, byW. L. McAtee. In this there is a list, onpage 186, of the best trees and shrubs forattracting birds, given in the order oftheir attractiveness, as follows: Elders,raspberries and blackberries, nmlberries,dogwood fruits, sumachs, wild cherries,blueberries, wild grapes, pokeberries, Vir-ginia creeper berries, bayberries, juniperberries, service berries, holly berries,strawberries, the fruits of viburnums,h

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