2 1/1 Lucas o?i the Food of Hummingbird*. 



Auk 

 Oct. 



Below is a list of the material examined, and I may say in addition 

 that in preparing skeletons of Hummingbirds I have examined a 

 number of specimens, not noted, all of which contained remains 

 of insects. The greater part of these specimens were in the 

 collection of the U. S. National Museum, but most of the 

 examples of Trocliihis colubris were among the material collected 

 for the Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy, Dept. of 

 Agriculture, and I am indebted to Dr. C. Hart Men iam for the 

 privilege of examining these. I am also indebted to Mr. W. H. 

 Ashmead for kindly determining such of the insects as have been 

 identified. 



Lampornis dominicus. — Jeremie. Hayti. Stuffed. 



Eulampis chlorolaemus. — a. Barbadoes, W. I. Stuffed. Fragments of 

 Rurytoma, Chalcis, Cecidomyia, Typ/ilocyba, jfassus. 



Eulampis chlorolaemus.— />. Barbadoes, W. I. Stuffed with remains of 

 diptera, etc. Eggs of insects? One entire beetle and part of a second, 

 belonging to the genus Hypothenemus, of interest as being a bark borer. 

 Florisuga mellivora. — Nicaragua. Stuffed with fragments of insects. 



Trochilus colubris. ? Full. 



Trochilus colubris. — Washington, D. C, Aug. S. Fragments of 

 insects. 



Trochilus colubris. — Todmorden, Ontario, Aug. 15. Six specimens of 

 gr.ats, three of Entedon, two species By/Jioscofitis. 



Trochilus colubris. — Todmorden, Ontario, Aug. 22. Four young 

 tomisoid spiders. 



Trochilus cohrbris. — St. Catherine's, Ontario. A few fragments of 

 insects. 



Trochilus colubris. — Montgomery Co., Pa., Aug. 25. A few fragments. 

 Trochilus colubris — Hawkinsville, Fla. Many minute fragments of 

 insects. 

 Trochilus colubris. — Matamoras, Mexico. Three specimens, all empty. 

 Trochilus colubris. — Washington, D. C, May 10. Many fragments of 

 spiders. A few rounded grains of sand. 



Trochilus colubris. — Washington, D. C, May 10. Fragments of 

 diptera, etc. Two spiders. 



Trochilus alexandri. — Fort Wingate, N. M. Two specimens, one full, 

 the other partly full, of insect remains. One specimen had swallowed a 

 splinter of wood a quarter of an inch long. 



Calypte costae. — Cape St. Lucas, Lower Cala. Full of insects and spiders. 

 Pkora, Tele >i omits, Polygiiotus, Typhlocyba. 



Stellula calliope. — Fort Wingate, N. M., July 3. Two specimens. One 

 full of insect fragments, principally diptera and hymenoptera. The second 

 partly full of fragments, including one beetle. 



