1912.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 335 



Thus these bobwhites ate, among other things, three species of 

 •strongly flavored yellow and black Chrysomelidse, or leaf beetles, 

 and two species of equally if not more pungent Coccinellidse or 

 ladybirds, whose colors of yellow and black and red, black, and 

 yellow are typically "warning." On the other hand, the birds 

 refused one red and black ladybird. It is evident considerations as 

 to color of prey have little weight with the quail. It is worthy of 

 note also that although these birds refused plant lice, birds experi- 

 mented upon by Mrs. Margaret M. Nice ate large numbers of these 

 insects. 



Mrs. Nice's experiments upon bobwhites 83 which have previously 

 been reviewed 84 by the writer clearly bring out the fact that birds 

 will eat in captivity insects which they probably never eat or in 

 some cases never even see in their normal existence. Examples are: 

 house-flies (Musca domestica) and mosquitoes; 1350 and 568 of 

 these insects, respectively, were taken at single meals, but undoubtedly 

 they are seldom if ever eaten by wild bobwhites. Silver fish (Lepisma 

 saccharina), clothes moths (Tinea pellionella), and mealworms 

 (Tenebrio) also were eaten by the captive quail, but wild birds 

 probably never have a chance to get these close associates of man. 



The writer does not list the results of Judd's trials of quail with 

 various vegetable foods, but only one item was refused, namely, 

 strawberries. These are eaten by wild bobwhites and Judd com- 

 ments 85 on the fact as follows: "M. B. Waite reports that near 

 Odenton, Md., it sometimes picks ripening strawberries. Yet 

 birds that were kept in captivity several months refused straw- 

 berries when they were hungry." 



Broadwinged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) . — 



Accepted: 



Lepidoptera. 



Basilona imperialis imago (yellow and purplish-brown). 

 Bartrachia. 



Bufo sp. 



Aves. 



MlCROPODID^E. 



Chcetura pelagica (fuscous). 



83 " Food of the Bob white." By Margaret Morse Nice, Journ. of Economic 

 Entomology, Vol. 3, No. 3, June, 1910, pp. 295-313. 



84 Journ. Economic Ent., Vol. 3, No. 5, October, 1910, pp. 437-438. 

 « Bui. 21, Biol. Survey, 1905, p. 36. 



