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Title: Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sylvester D. Judd
Subjects: Birds--Maryland Beneficial birds--Maryland.
Publisher: Washington : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of 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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n some place- almost girdling the tree. The loss >fsap must have been an exhausting drain, bul it was not the sole causeof death. Beetle- of the Hat-headed apple borer, attracted by the 90 BIRDS OF A MARYLAND FARM. exuding sap, hud oviposited in the holes, and the next generation,haying thus grained an entrance, had finished the deadly work begunby the sapsuckers. Holes made by birds are sometimes closed by burl-like knobs of wood, but if they remain open the death of thetree from borers La very likely to result. In the ease of the treeskilled at Marshall Hall, galleries made by borers had honeycombedthe wood beneath the section of hark riddled by the sapsuckers. Only 2 stomachs of sapsuckers were collected. They were takenduring the middle of November, L899 and L900, and contained severaldung-beetles (Aphodius) and the fruit of woodbine and red cedar. The red-headed woodpecker is not common at Marshall Hall, thoughit was seen in small numbers every fall. One specimen taken NTovem-
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~uin FIG. 32.—Flicker. her 29,1900, among the swamp oaks south of lots 4 and 5, had eaten gallinsects (Cynipidee) and many bits of the woody tissue of the gall.This woodpecker makes about half its food on vegetable matter,largely masl with some berries, and selects for its insect food chiefly beetles. ants, and grasshoppers. It is, on the whole, useful. The dicker (fig. 32), though nesting on the farm, was common onlyduring migration, when it was seen in flocks of from 6 to 12. AStomach collected in the middle of November, L899, contained 10ground-beetles (including Anisodactylus^ Ifis penrisyVoomicus^andPtero8tic)vuB sayi\ 5 ants, 1 sow bug, 1 black cricket and skin, and20 seeds of woodbine berries. The flicker is somewhat more insectiv- SPECIES. 91 otou8 than the redhead. Lts vegetable food usually consists of a little masl and a good deal of wild fruit. It (fi less of a woodpecker than any other species of the family, for it is much less arboreal and spendsa l

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