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destruction counts against the bird. The others were ants and small bees 

 and are of neutral importance except perhaps the ants which may be 

 injurious. Diptera made up 16.7 per cent of the stomach contents and 

 again a large proportion of them were parasitic species. Lepidoptera 

 (small moths) constitute 16.7 per cent, beetles 7.8 per cent and the re- 

 mainder was made up of Hemiptera, spiders and miscellaneous injects. 

 Except for the spiders the food was entirely composed of insects, and a 

 large proportion of useful species were taken and no decidedly injurious 

 ones. I should say that these Cape May Warblers did very little to pay 

 for the destruction of grapes." 



In 1914, about half a dozen Cape May Warblers arrived on September 6. 

 I watched an immature female at a distance of five feet, the bird not mind- 

 ing me in the least; it ran out on a twig and reaching across to a hunch of 

 Clinton grapes, punctured one and repeatedly ate from it, none as far as I 

 have noticed have gone through the motions of drinking with raised beak; 

 when it was satisfied, I examined the grape and found it intact as far as the 

 pulp was concerned, but the juice was partly extracted. 



On the following day the number of individuals had doubled; further 

 increased on the 11th, becoming common on the 12th, 13th and 14th, and 

 by the last date the red and purple grape crop was ruined; some grapes 

 had as many as three or four wedge-shaped punctures; while the white 

 grapes had not been touched. However, on the 17th I found the Niagara 

 grapes utterly destroyed. I counted forty-five grapes on a single bunch 

 with from one to three punctures. It would seem that a fresh puncture 

 occurred on every visit and the havoc made during the last three days. 

 The species was very abundant until the 21st, and about ten or a dozen 

 constantly present until Oct. 18; the last one was seen on the 20th. 



Single Tennessee Warblers [Vermivora peregrina), were taken on October 

 3 and 8; and during the season, almost all the species enumerated for 1913, 

 with the addition of the Parula Warbler (Compsothlypis americana usnece) 

 and Bay-breasted Warbler ( Dendroica castanea) ; but all in greatly re- 

 duced numbers owing to the abundance of wild fruit on which they fed 

 undisturbed. 



I believe that grape juice was the principal food of the Cape May Warbler 

 during its lengthy visit in this neighborhood. It was present in countless 

 numbers at Berwyn and vicinity as far as a mile south of the village, appar- 

 ently by far the most abundant species for a period ; the complaints of the 

 " little striped yellow bird " were many, and so far as I am able to learn, 

 all unbagged grapes were ruined; the loss must have been many tons 

 worth several hundred dollars. — Frank L. Burns, Berwyn, Penna. 



Cape May Warbler Eating Grapes. — On September 12, 1914, at 

 West Grove, Chester Co., Pa., where I spent the summer and fall, I ob- 

 served three Cape May Warblers ( Dendroica tigrina) feeding upon ripe 

 grapes. I did not note how long this species remained with us, but I recall 

 distinctly that for several days a few of them might be seen at almost any 



