INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1904. 



135 



Like the Meadow Lark, a bird of the pasture, field and prairie. 

 Frequently seen in the road, when it will run in front of you a dis- 

 tance before taking flight. At the latter time it always shows the 

 white of its outer tail feathers, a most characteristic marking. The 

 upper parts are brownish gray with more or less black and brownish 

 black and brown streaks on sides and breast. Length, about six 

 inches. Nests on the ground. This modest colored bird is quite 

 a singer at times, its song reminding one somewhat of that of the 

 Song Sparrow. About two-thirds of the year's food consists of 

 seeds and other vegetable matter, the remainder consisting largely 

 of cutworms, grasshoppers, army worms and spiders. Of thirty- 

 seven Wisconsin adults studied by King, thirty-one had eaten various 

 small weed seeds ; five, four grasshoppers ; one, eight grasshoppers' 

 eggs ; four, ten larvae ; fourteen, twenty-seven small beetles ; three, 

 eight moths; one, three flies; one, three land-snails; one, two ker- 

 nels of wheat ; one, a kernel of rye, 



CHICADEE, BLACK-CAPPED TITMOUSE. 



Fig. 130. — Chickadee. Original. 



Dear to us because of its cheerful activity in the cold of winter 

 when almost all other bird friends have left us. From an economic 

 standpoint a great benefactor, for not only does it consume large 



