This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... Only nine percent of their food for winter is animal, the remainder being largely the seeds of noxious weeds. The comparative size of the segments in the accompanying circle graphically illustrate the relative proportions of various foodstuffs consumed. SONG SPARROW, Melospixa melodia melodia (Wilson) This is another ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... Only nine percent of their food for winter is animal, the remainder being largely the seeds of noxious weeds. The comparative size of the segments in the accompanying circle graphically illustrate the relative proportions of various foodstuffs consumed. SONG SPARROW, Melospixa melodia melodia (Wilson) This is another of our ground-inhabiting birds, of general distribution over the entire state, abundant in summer, but much less so in the northern part, in winter. The preferred habitat is low, moist ground, among briars and weeds, in the vicinity of water, but Fig. 9. Food of the Song Sparrow graphically shown. The relative size of the segments of the circle show the comparative amounts eaten of various foodstuffs. frequently it is found on the more elevated ground along fence rows, roadside banks, or about the home grounds. Its food is much the same as that taken by others of the family, except that a greater percent of the seeds and insects taken are those found on low, moist ground. Thirty-four percent of its food is animal matter, chiefly insects. As a destroyer of smart-weed seeds, it is unsurpassed. Dock and sheep sorrel, eaten by but few species, are taken in quantity. Of the fruit and grain taken, a very little, 6 percent, is all that could be of use to man, and of the animal food, only 2 percent of beneficial insects could be considered as loss. The benefit resulting from the destruction of vast quantities of weed seeds as well as of injurious insects entitles it to protection. ENGLISH OR HOUSE SPARROW, Passer domesticus Without exception, all of our native Sparrows are of great service to man, but the reverse is true of the introduced House Sparrow. Its introduction took place at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1851 and 1852, and since then it has spread over...
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