. Oiseaux utiles et leur protection. Contenant de brèves descriptions des espèces les plus courantes et utiles du Massachusetts, avec des comptes-rendus de leurs habitudes alimentaires, et un chapitre sur les moyens d'attirer et de protéger les oiseaux . les oiseaux ne faisaient aucun mal, car les abeilles, une fois loin de la ruche, n'auraient jamais pu revenir à son abri. Le Chickadee n'est pas nownto blesser le grain ou les fruits cultivés. Il arrive parfois qu'il pecks une pomme surgelée reste accrochée sur l'arbre en hiver, mais je ne trouve aucun enregistrement de son ayant blessé des fruits à tout autre moment.il serait difficile de trouver un oiseau plus inoffensif ou plus
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. 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 . the birds were doing no harm, as the bees, once away from the hive, would never have beenable to return to its shelter. The Chickadee is not knownto injure grain or cultivated fruit. Occasionally it pecks afrozen apple left hanging on the tree in winter, but I canfind no record of its having injured fruit at any other time.It would be hard to find a bird more harmless or more usefulthan this species. White-breasted Nuthatch. Sitta carolinensis carolinensis. Length. — About six inches. Adult. — Upper parts a rather light hluish-gray; crown, nape of neck, and upperback black; wings and tail marked somewhat with black and white; lowerparts and sides of head mainly white. :ffest. — ln an old post or an excavation in a tree trunk, which is sometimes hol-lowed out by the birds. Effgs. — Mich like those of the Chickadee, but larger. Season. — Resident. Most writers regard this common and familiar species asa bird of the forest; but in eastern Massachusetts it has 172 USEFUL BIRDS.. become a frequenter of orchard and shade trees, and is com-monly seen along village streets in fall, winter, spring, andsometimes even in midsummer, although comparatively few breed in the State. Inthe fall it may be seenhere and there in thewoods or orchards, oftenin company with Chick-adees and other treegleaners. In winterthis species is almost Fig. 54. — White-breasted Nuthatch, two-thirds alwayS engaged duringnatural Bize. -, 1.1, . -i.i* daylight in a diligentsearch over the trunks and larger limbs of trees, particularlyon the rough bark of the larger trunks, where it finds agreat part of its insect food. In one instance, where aworkman had pared off most of the outer bark from a largeoak, two of these Nuthatches were seen busily engaged fortwo days in searchi
