344 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



Summary: Melospiza melodia. — 



[June, 



In rejecting the seeds of Chenopodium and Polygonum this bird 

 refused two favorite items of the food of wild members of its species; the 

 bird was only starved into eating Amaranthus seeds, another favorite 

 natural food. Of the rejected insects, Camponotus, Diabrotica, Hippo- 

 damia, and Lachnosterna have been found in collected stomachs. The 

 acceptances include at least one insect, Papilio turnus, which the 

 bird probably never gets under natural conditions. The experi- 

 menter noted that this butterfly would have easily escaped the bird 

 had it not been confined. 



Little Butcherbird (Lanius ludovicianus) : 88 — 



Accepted: 



Chilopoda. 



Lithobius sp., 1. 

 Orthoptera. 

 acridiid.e. 



Hippiscus sp., 2. 



COLEOPTERA. 



SCARAB^EID^E. 



Copris Carolina (black), 1. 

 Lachnosterna sp., 1. 



Ligyrus gibbosus (dead) (reddish-brown), 1. 

 Osmoderma sp., 1. 



Trichius piger (greenish-black, reddish-brown, white; both 

 white and yellow hairs), 1. 



CERAMBYCID.E. 



Monohammus sp., 1. 

 Meloid^e. 



Meloe americana (bluish-black, vesicating juices), 1. 

 Heteroptera. 

 Pentatomid^e. 



Euschistus sp., 1. 



Nezara hilaris (green), 1. 



88 Partial account in Bui. SO, Biol. Survey, 1907, p. 35. 



