54 . ood of Birds. [ZOE 
nor any other that I knew. The name of Desert Lily will fit 
this plant perfectly, and this is the meaning of the generic name. 
The leaves are flat and narrow and not terete as would be 
inferred from my original description. The pollen grains are 
large, acute at each end and elliptical. The tip of the anthers 
just equals the style in flower. Capsule ovate to oval, scarcely 
crested. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXV. 
EREMOCRINUM: “A” plant natural size, “‘B”’ flower and pedicel enlarged 
three diameters, ‘‘C” pod enlarged four diameters, ‘‘D” stamen enlarged 
six diameters, showing the auricled base of anther, ‘“ E”’ segment of perianth 
showing nerves, enlarged three diameters, ‘“F 1” cross-section of upper 
part of leaf, “‘F 2” cross-section of lower part of leaf. 
CyMoprEerus: “Ar” seed of C. Farryi showing wings, “A 2”? same 
with wider wings, ““B 1” seed of C. Newberryi var. alatus without wings on 
back, “‘B 2” same with wings developed, one of them corky thickened, ‘“‘C’* 
C. glomeratus with wings thickened as much as in C. Parryi one form, ‘‘D”? 
 C. Newberryi with one rib thickened nearly as much as the lateral ones, a 
common occurrence; “EK” Cymopterus Ibapensis Jones; ‘“F”’ C. dongipes with 
some of the wings enlarged in the middle after the fashion of the above; 
“G” C. Jonesit. The enlargement of each is shown by the fraction 
underneath. 
NOTES ON THE FOOD OF BIRDS. I 
BY WALTER E. BRYANT, 
WESTERN GREBE. <Echmophorus occidentalis. The stomach 
of a young one collected on Merced Lake, San Francisco, 
was distended with feathers, some of them more than roo mm. in 
length. The presence of feathers in the stomachs of Podicipidze 
has been observed before and attributed to the individual 
swallowing them while preening its plumage, but in this instance 
the bird was in downy plumage, and I may add that feathers 
alone comprised the contents of the stomach, I have also found 
a few feathers in the stomach of an adult, which was in poor 
condition, evidently having been sufferin g for some time from a 
gun-shot wound, as algze were growing to the satiny-white breast 
as they do to the bottoms of boats. In more than a score of 
individuals of this species which I have dissected there were 
found small fishes or nothing. 
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