THE FOOD HABITS OF NEBRASKA BIRDS. 



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BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



extreme fondness for cherries have earned it the name of 

 "cherry bird" in many locahties. 



The animal food is entirely insects and amounts to thirteen 

 per cent of the food of the year. Insects are most eaten in 

 May, when they form fifty-one per cent of the food; in June 

 twenty-two per cent, July twenty-one per cent, August thirteen 

 per cent, September fifteen per cent. Beetles are most eaten, 

 the only useful ones being a few tiger-beetles, the rest are 

 various scarabeid and chrysomelid beetles, the latter including 

 many of the destructive elm leaf-beetle. Caterpillars are the 

 next choice, one stomach containing over one-hundred of them. 



