16 The Bulletin. 



No. 3. — Lepidoptera. No. 5. — Hymenoptera. 



Butterflies, Ants, 



Moths, Wasps, 



Cutworm, Stinging ants, 



Army worm. Ichneumon flies. 



No. 4. — Hemiptera. No. 6. — Miscellaneous Animal Food. 



Stilt bug, Ticks, 



Soldier bug, Snails, 



Assassin bug, Thousand-legs, 



Chinch-bug, Small batrachians, 



Spittle insects, Sawbugs, 



Tree hoppers, Spiders and cocoons. 



Jumping plant-lice. 



It is rather a remarkable fact that the Lark, being a ground- 

 feeding bird, should destroy so few beneficial insects. This may 

 possibly be explained by the fact that many of the useful kinds 

 have a disgusting odor. The one fact alone that the bird eats chinch- 

 bugs is enough to make us his friend forever, for we cannot lose 

 sight of the fact that this troublesome bug in the United States 

 during the past half century has destroyed grain to the estimated 

 value of over $330,000,000. Of late it has also been discovered 

 that the Lark is a wonderful enemy of the boll weevil. Professor 

 Beal, of Washington, D. C, estimates that in the great hay-producing 

 sections of the country this bird annually saves two and one-half 

 tons of hay in each township as a result of destroying grasshoppers. 



But the story of the good which the Meadow Lark does is not yet 

 all told. We noticed that it eats weed seeds. Here are some of 

 the seeds found in the stomachs of those 238 specimen birds : 



Pigeon grass, Gromwell seed, 



Panic grass, Black mustard, 



Smart weed, Bayberry. 

 Rag weed, 



What a wonderful record for good the Meadow Lark has to its 

 credit. Does it occasionally pull up some sprouting grain? Such 

 statements have at times been in circulation. However this may be, 

 careful observers all appear to unite in voting it a good and use- 

 ful bird, and in nearly all States in the Union it is guarded by 

 statutes the year through. The following States only have not 

 as yet enacted laws for its protection, viz. : Florida, North Carolina, 

 Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, and Idaho. 



The Woodpeckers. 



In North Carolina the following species and climatic varieties 

 of woodpeckers are to-day recognized by naturalists : 

 Hairy Woodpecker (Dryobates vttlosur, Linn). 

 Southern Hairy Woodpecker (D. v. avdubonii, Swains). 



