OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Gf> 



odice, ^-Kgeria tupuliforme^ Gortyna zece. Orgy a Jeucos- 

 tigma, many of the Lvcicnidce, Noctuidce, and Tortricida , 

 and Cratonychus ciiiereus* I/arpalus compar, H. pensy-- 

 ran/ctfs* and other beetles. 



An examination of the stomachs of many adult birds short- 

 ly after their arrival, revealed traces of the following beetles : 

 PervpliHs scopu-linus Ha r pal us compar, //. pensylvan* 

 /'ens. Ptitms humeral 7.v, Jlostrichus pini, Scarites subter- 

 raiH'us* Platvniis cupripennis, Cratonychus cinereus, 

 Donacia pnsilla, besides the following orthopters, CEdipoda 

 iicbulosa* CE. sulphured, and Acheta iiigr'a. Later in the 

 season, remains of Muse a domcstica, Tab an us lineola, T. 

 cinctus, Anthrax elongata* and other diptera. But when 

 the warmth of summer has brought into existence the vast 

 army of lepidoptera, numbers both in the larval, and perfect 

 stages, are eaten. In addition to those given above, which 

 are fed to the young, we have known them to subsist upon 

 CtctJieisa bella, Argynnis mvrina, Grapta inter roga- 

 tio-uis, Chrysophanus amcricana. Satyr ida, LyaFiiidce, 

 SpiJosonia -cirghrica. S. text or, Lithosia mhiiata, Kn- 

 uonws subsignaria, Acrouvcta obliuita, Perophcra JMel- 

 sheimerii, Clisiocawpa americana, and others ; of hymen- 

 optera, Apis mellifica, Lophyrns abietis* Selandria vitis, 

 S. ros<r, and Formica sanguinea. 



We have taken nests and eggs of the Wood PC wee dur- 

 ing the latter part of July, and the early part of August; 

 but whether a second laying or not, we are unable to say ; 

 possibly the work of birds that had been debarred the essen- 

 tial duties of incubation, earlier in the season, since this 

 desire is so innate as to be foregone with difficulty. 



The Wood Pcwec retires to its southern home during the 

 last of September. As this species is a migrant in divers 

 parts of Mexico, as far southward as Guatemala, there can 

 be no doubt that it passes the dreary winter months in that 

 clime. 



The eggs are obtuse at one extremity, and slightly ta per- 

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