Useful Birds and Their Protection. Containing Brief Descriptions of the More Common and Useful Species of Massachusetts, with Accounts of Their Food Habits, and a Chapter on the Means of Attracting and Protecting Birds

xx, 437 pp. Maroon cloth boards. CONTENTS: Introductory: The Utility of Birds in Nature; The Value of Birds to Man; The Utility of Birds in Woodlands; Birds as Destroyers of Hairy Caterpillars and Plant Lice; The Economic Service of Birds in the Orchard; Song Birds of Orchard and Woodland; Song Birds or Orchard and Woodland (Continued); Songless Birds of Orchard and Woodland; The Utility of Birds in Field and Garden; Birds of Field and Garden; Birds of the Air; Birds of Marsh and Waterside; Checks Upon the Increase of Useful Birds; Checks Upon the Increase of Useful Birds (Continued); The Protection of Birds; Index.