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Title: 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
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: (Boston, Mass.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^ a hundred correspondents scattered throughall the counties of the State report the cat as one of thegreatest enemies of birds. The reports that have come inof the torturing and killing of birds by cats are absolutely
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PLATE XXXV. —Cat with Young Robin. This pet cat killed tifty-eight birdsin one year. (Pliotosii-apli, from life, by A. C. Dike.) CHECKS UPON INCBEASE OF USEFUL BIRDS. 363 sickening. The number of birds killed by them in this Stateis appalling. It is quite true, however, that some cats do not kill manybirds, and that some intelligent or high-bred cats may betaught not to kill any. Some cat lovers believe that eachcat kills on the average not more than ten birds a 3ear;but I have learned of two instances where more than thatnumber were killed in a single da)^ and another where sevenwere killed. If we assume, however, that the average caton the farm kills but ten birds a year, and that there is onecat to each farm in Massachusetts, we have, in round num-bers, seventy thousand cats killing seven hundred thousandbirds annuall3^l If we add to the cats kept on farms the enormous numberof village and city cats, many of which have good oppor-tunities for catching birds, we shall see the chie

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