NO. 7 PROTECTIVE ADAPTATIONS McATEE 20I 



1923. Economic value of North Anu-rican skunks. Farmers' Bulk 587, 

 U. S. Dep. Agr., 24 pp., 10 figs. Food (pp. 9-14), poultry, game, 

 mice, and armyworms, tobacco worms, whitegrubs, hop grubs, 

 grasshoppers, potato beetles and other insects. 

 L.[ucAs], F. A. 



1905. The Newfoundland whale fisheries. Science, n. s., vol. 2r, p. 713, 

 May 5. Large whales feed almost exclusively on Eiiphansia; fin- 

 backs upon caplin. 

 Piper, S. E. 



1909. Mouse plagues, their control and prevention. U. S. Dep. Agr. Year- 



book 1908, pp. 301-310, pis. 21-25. During a plague near Humboldt 

 Lake, Nevada, 2,000 predatory birds and 1,000 mammals put in 

 their appearance and together consumed about 1,350,000 mice per 

 month. 



1928. The mouse infestation of Buena Vista Lake Basin, Kern County, 

 California, September, 1926, to February, 1927. Monthly Bull. 

 California Dep. Agr., vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 538-560, figs. 91-102, Oct. 

 Ring-billed gulls, short-eared owls, barn owls, various hawks, 

 ravens, great blue herons, road-runners, shrikes, coyotes, skunks, 

 and house cats noted as predators (pp. 550-552). 

 Rainbow, W. J. 



1913. Food, medicines, and charms of savage man. Abstract in Rep. 

 Trustees Australian Mus. 1913, p. 9. Humans feeding on spiders, 

 beetle larvae, caterpillars, grasshoppers, ants, bees, wasps, termites, 

 and scorpions. 



SCHEFFER, ThEO. H. 



1910. The common mole. Bull. 168, Kansas Agr. Exp. Sta., 36 pp., figs. 



Natural enemies (pp. 20-21) include hawks, owls, coyotes, domestic 



dogs. On the whole has few foes. 

 1927. American moles as agricultural pests and as fur producers. Farmers' 



Bull. 1247, U. S. Dep. Agr., 20 pp., 18 figs. Animal food (pp. 7-8), 



earthworms, beetles and their larvae, spiders, centipeds, ants, 



caterpillars. 

 West, James A. 



1910. A study of the food of moles in Illinois. Bull. Illinois State Lab. 



Nat. Hist., vol. 9, pp. 14-22, Oct. Details of contents of 56 



stomachs ; references to previous literature. 



