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Title: Birds of California in Relation to the Fruit Industry
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: F.E.L. Beal
Subjects: Birds--California--Fruit--Diseases and pests.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Biological Survey
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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egoing. SUMMARY. In conclusion, it may be said that, like other genera of the Paridse,nuthatches are eminently useful birds. They do not prey upon culti-vated crops, eat but few useful insects, and probably are among ourmost efficient conservators of the forest and of the orchard. PLAIN TIT. (Bwolophus inornatus.) (Plate V.) The plain tit. like the rest of its family, is quiet and unobtrusive,attracting little notice by its voice and movements, and probably isthe most modestly dressed of them all. While it seems to prefer tohunt on oaks, it does not neglect fruit trees, and often may be seenflitting about the orchard. The general character of its food is the same as that of other smallarboreal species. The relative proportions consumed, however,differ somewhat from those taken by other members of the family.The plain tit eats a greater proportion of vegetable food than anyother titmouse so far as known, and. what is more remarkable, alarge part of this consists of the pulp of fruit. I
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Plain Titmouse Baeolophus inornatus NUTHATCHES w i» I l I M i« l . The following brief account of the food f this bird can be c sidered onh preliminary, an bul 7(5 stomachs were available for exam ination. These, however, are distributed through the year, o thai . month is represented by :it least three. While these results may be modified bv future investigation, ili<-\ probably afford a fair genera) idea of the yearly food of the /. Unlike most f the titmice, the plain lii <-at- Less animal than vegetable food, the proportion being l.» percent f animal i»> ..7 of vegetable, Examination of a greater number of stomachs max modify these figures but probably will not reverse them. Tin animal food i- quite evenly divided among a number l elements, but, a- with the bush tit. bugs (Hemiptera) appear t be the favorite, mostly eaten during the summer months. These amount to 12 percent of the food. This is a little more than one-fourth <

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