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" Number of Eggs of the Fall Canker-worm Found in the Stomachs of Chickadees. 



EGGS. 



No. i,------------ 273 



2, ............ 261 



3- - 216 



4, ------------ 2 ;8 



making in all 1,028 eggs found in the stomachs of four birds. Four birds killed 

 later in the season had eaten the female imagos of the spring canker-worm (Palea- 

 crita vernata), as follows : 



MOTHS. 



"No. 1, ----------- 4 i 



2, 18 



3. ' . - . 27 



4, ------------ i 9 



making a total of 105. In Nos. 2, 3 and 4 of the last table there were a large 

 number of eggs also. It is safe to say that there were 150 eggs in each stomach, in 

 addition to the female moths eaten. 



"Mr. Bailey carefully counted the eggs in the ovaries of twenty of these female 

 moths, with the following result : 



No. 1, - 158 



2, -..-..---.-- 272 



3, ----------- 127 



4, - - 184 



5. 213 



6 > " " '35 



7, - - 140 



8, _-.-.------- 220 



9, ■■ ----------- 200 



10, - - - - - 130 



11, - - - - in 



12, ------------ 160 



13. ------- i 93 



14, ------------ 131 



iS. ----- 281 



16, 242 



17, - - - 116 



18, ------------ 281 



19, - - - - - 192 



20, - 217 



