Annual report (1901) (14563546469)

Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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forty-two different species of wild fruits, of which the seeds would either pass through the intestine unharmed or would be regurgitated, but in either case would in all probability fall where they could sprout and grow. Some of these, like the wild cherry, the sour gum and junipers, are genuine trees, while others, like the dogwoods, the bird cherries and the amelanchiers, are of smaller growth, and still others are only shrubs. As the robin is not a frequenter of the forest depths, the seeds would be dropped, as a general rule, away from overshadowing trees, and so have the best possible chance for growth, and in this way the forest is extended. The Cedarbird (Ampelis cedrorunt). This bird, like the robin, subsists largely upon fruits, the seeds of which itdistributes far and wide. The wild cherry, the sour gum and the juniper arethree species whose fruit is much eaten by the cedarbird, and the seeds scatteredin a thousand places where they have a chance for germination and growth.
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BLUE JAY birds as conservators of the forest. 269 The Jays. There are within the limits of the United States ten species, with severalsubspecies, of jays, all of which inhabit the forest, or at least avoid the habitationsand improvements of man. In the east there are two species, the blue jay(Cyanocitta cristatd) and the Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis). On the Pacificcoast several species of jays are found, but two are conspicuous, as they inhabitthe more thickly settled portion of that region. These are the California jay(Aphelocoma californica) and Stellars jay (Cyanocitta stclleri). In their generalhabits they strongly resemble the blue jay of the east, and their food habits aremuch the same, though the western species feed much more freely on fruit thantheir eastern relative. This perhaps is owing to greater opportunities, and thetaste may be an acquired one. Like the eastern species, however, mast is aprominent ingredient of their food, and it is this which renders the group o