162 EEPOET UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



* MELOSPIZA MELODIA, Baird. Song Sparrow. 



* PEUCAEA AESTIVALIS, Cab. Baclimari>s Finch. 



* EUSPIZA AMERICANA, Bonap. Blade-throated Bunting. 



* GUIRACA CAERULEA, Sw. Blue Grosbeak. 



* CYANOSPIZA CIRIS, Baird. Painted Bunting. 



* CYANOSPIZA CYANEA, Baird. Indigo Bird. 



* SPERMOPHILA MORELETII, Pucheran. Little Seedeater. 



* PYRRHULOXIA SINUATA, Bonap. Texas Cardinal. 



* CARDINALIS VIRGINIANUS, Bonap. Red Bird. 



* PIPILO ERYTHROPHTIIALMUS, Vieill. Ground RoUn ; Towhee. 



* AQELAIUS PHOENICEUS. Vieill. Red-winged Blacklird. 



* STURNELLA MAGNA, Sw. Meadow Lark. 



* ICTERUS SPURIUS, Bonap. Orchard Oriole. Extremely beneficial. 



* ICTERUS BALTIMORE, Daudin. Baltimore Oriole. Extremely bene- 

 ficial. 



* QUISCALTTS MACROURA, Sw. Long-tailed Grakle. 



* QUISCALUS MAJOR, Vieill. Boat-tailed Grakle. 



* QUISCALUS VERSICOLOR, Vieill. Crow Blackbird. 



* QUISCALUS BARITUS, Vieill. Florida Blackbird. 



*CORVUS AMERICANUS, Aud. Common Crow. Great difference of 

 opinion as to whether destructive or not, but unquestionably chiefly 

 insectiverous. 



* var. CORVUS FLORIDANUS, Baird. Florida Crow. 



* CORVUS OSSIFRAGUS, Wilson. Fish Crow. 



* CYANURA CRISTATA, Sw. Blue Jay. Omnivorous and scarcely ben- 

 eficial. 



* CYANOCITTA FLORID ANA, Bonap. Florida Jay. 



* ORTYX VIRGINIANUS, Bonap. Partridge; Quail. Very beneficial ; 

 few birds, if any, more so. 



INVERTEBRATE ENEMIES. 



The invertebrate enemies of the cotton-worm are, with the exception 

 of the spiders, all true insects. These enemies may be divided, for the 

 sake of convenience, into those predaceous and those parasitic upon the 

 cotton- worm in one or another of its stages.* 



PREDACEOUS. 



SPIDERS (Araneida). That the numerous spiders, always to be found 

 about cotton fields, do a considerable amount of good in capturing the 

 cotton-worms and the cotton-moths cannot be doubted. The jumping 



* The use of these two words in contradistinction the one to the other is to be dep- 

 recated, under ordinary circumstances, from the fact that they are not sufficiently 

 definitely limited in their meaning, and that there are many insects which it would 

 be difficult to designate by the one word or the other. In the present case, however, no 

 such difficulty occurs, and we adopt the terms predaceous and parasitic as affording the 

 most convenient division of this head. 



