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( )n pp. 231 and 239 it is stated that gypsy moth eggs were fed to a 

 confined English sparrow and a crow. The former ate them 

 voluntarily, but "did not appear to relish them"; the latter 

 would not take them except when they were concealed within 

 other food. 

 It will be noted that in Collins' experiment (see above) the English 

 sparrow took the eggs only when they were forced upon it. 

 Herkick, F. H. The Home Life of Wild Birds. New York, 1901. 

 Young kingfishers rejected raw meat, but throve on fish in cap- 

 tivity (p. 92). 

 Hodge, C. F. Our ( iommon Birds. Nature Study Leaflet, Biol. 

 Ser. No. 2, Worcester, Mass., 1899. 

 A young cedarbird took flies, poke berries, cabbage worms, "edema" 

 larvae, ants, fall web worms (a little sparingly), bush cranberries, 

 and peppermint drops (p. 15). Mockingbirds accepted meal- 

 worms and spiders (p. 19). 

 Hodge, C. F. [Food of Young Ruffed Grouse.] Rep. Comm. 

 Fisheries and Game, Mass., 1903 (1904), pp. 182, 183. 

 "I tested them with a great variety of prepared foods — grated 

 egg, bread crumbs, scraped raw meat, grated boiled meat, grits, 

 boiled rice, millet and other small seeds, grass, clover, chickweed, 

 partridge, and wintergreen berries, etc. They would either 

 pay no attention to any of these things, or, if they did pick at 

 them at all, would not do so but once." Foods accepted were 

 sweet curds, earthworms, mosquito larvse, plant lice, mealy 

 bugs, thrips, mealworms and maggots. 

 Hodge, C. F. A Summer with the Bluebirds. Bird Lore, 6, No. 2, 

 March-April, 1904. 

 "In my series of feeding tests I brought in a number of potato 

 beetles and thoughtlessly dropped a large larva into an open 

 mouth, before observing whether they would take them of their 

 own accord. I noticed that they picked them up once apiece, 

 wiped their bills in disgust, and declined to touch them again. 

 Next morning one of the birds was dead under the perch" (p. 45). 

 Hodge, C. F. [Food of Young Ruffed Grouse.] Rep. Comm. 

 Fisheries and Game, Mass., 1904 (1905), pp. 132, 133. 

 Gives a long list of foods accepted; pears and peaches were scarcely 

 more than tasted; thorn-apples, barberries, and black alder 

 berries were not refused, but were taken in large quantities: 

 they took quantities of all sorts of leaves except grape, snowball, 

 artichoke, and Rosa rugosa. 

 Thorn-apples and black alder berries are commonly eaten by wild 

 ruffed grouse. See Biological Survey, Bid. 24, 1905, pp. 36-38. 

 Hodge, C. F. [Food of Ruffed Grouse in Confinement.] Rep. 

 Comm. Fisheries and Game, Mass., 1905 (1906), pp. 65-68. 

 Gives names of numerous food items accepted. Berries of black 

 alder were taken sparingly; oats and barley were eaten spar- 

 ingly; peas and beans were refused. 



