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BIRDS THAT EAT THE COTTON BOLL WEEVIL. 



Record of birds examined which had not eaten boll weevils. « 



Species. 



Number of birds exam- 

 ined during — 



II 



§s 



1-5 



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Mourning dove {Zenaidura macroura) 



Mexican ground dove ( ColumbigalUna- p. pallescens) 



Yellow-billed cuckoo ( Coccyzus americanus) 



Texan woodpecker {Dryobates scalaris bairdi) 



Red-headed woodpecker ( Melanerpes erythrocephalus) 



Bed-bellied woodpecker ( Centurus carolinus) 



Golden-fronted woodpecker ( Centurus aurifrons) 



Flicker ( Colaptes auratus) 



Kingbird ( Tyrannus (yrannus) 



Wood pewee ( Contopus virens) 



Yellow-bellied flycatcher {Empidonax flaviveiUris) 



Blue jay ( Cyanociita cristata) 



Rusty blackbird ( Euphagus carolinus) 



Bronzed grackle (Quiscalus quiscula xneus) 



Western vesper sparrow (Poaccies gramineus confinis) 



Western grasshopper sparrow ( Coturniculus s. bimaculatus) 



White-crowned sparrow {Zonotrichia leucophrys, 



Western tree sparrow {Spizella monticola ochracea) 



Fox sparrow {Passerella iliaca) 



Towhee (Pipilo erythropMhalmus) 



Blue grosbeak (Guiraca cxrulea) 



Purple martin (Progne subis) 



Nashville warbler (Helminthophila rubricapilla) 



Yellow warbler {Dendroica sestiia ) 



Mourning warbler (Geothlypis Philadelphia) 



Curve-billed thrasher ( ToxoMoma curvirostre) 



Texan Bewick wren ( Thryomanes bewickii cryptus) 



Blue-gray gnatcatcher (PoUoptila cxrulea) 



Bluebird {Sialia sialis) 



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115 



45 

 4 



3 

 4 

 4. 



20 

 3 

 6 

 3 



10 



> 6 



112 

 5 



"2 

 3 

 2 



2 

 10 

 3 

 11 

 5 

 4 

 5 

 9 

 6 



a A few species of which only one or two specimens have been examined are omitted from the list. 



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