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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: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture
Subjects: Birds Birds Zoology, Economic
Publisher: (Boston, Printed by Wright & Potter)
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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)ar-ticular pet. They watched it through one season, and foundthat it killed fifty-eight birds, including the young in fivenests. Nearly 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 fifty-eight birdsill one year, (rhotograph, from life, by A. C. Dil^e.) CHECKS UPON INCREASE OF USEFUL BIRDS. 363 sickeniiia. Tlie iiuniber of l)irds killed b) them in thisState is appalling. It is quite true, however, that some eats do not kill manybirds, and that some intelliiient or high-bred eats may betaught not to kill any. Some eat loyers belieye that eacheat 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 day, and another whereseven were killed. If we assume, however, that the aver-age cat on the farm kills but ten birds a year, and that thereare two eats to each farm in )\Iassachus(»tts, we have, inround numbers, seventy thousand cats killing seven hun-dred thousand birds annually.^ 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

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