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INDEX TO PAPEKS KELATING TO FOOD OF BIKDS. 



Myiochanes richardsoni Continued. 



Food in California, Bui. 34, pp. 37, 



39-41 (137 stomachs). 

 Myiochanes virens Wood pewee. 



Brief account, Bui. 38, p. 54 ; Ybk. 



1900, p. 427. 

 Feeding on mulberries, Kept. 1890, p. 



285. 



Food at Marshall Hall, Bui. 17, pp. 19, 

 23, 24, 29, 30, 34, 35, 37, 40, 92 

 (11 stomachs). 



Food of nestlings, Ybk. 1900, p. 427. 

 Myna, Common, see Acridotheres tristis. 



. nsr. 



Nannus hiemalis Winter wren. 



Brief account, Bui. 30, pp. 65-66. 

 Feeding on boll weevil, Circ. 64, pp. 



4, 5. 



Food at Marshall Hall, Bui. 17, p. 107. 

 Nestor notabilis Kea. 



Killed soon after arrival in Hawaii 

 because of reputation as sheep de- 

 stroyer, Kept. 1904, pp. 296-297. 

 Nettion carolinense Green-winged teal. 

 Brief account, Bui. 38, p. 19. 

 Vegetable food, Circ. 81, p. 1. 

 Nighthawk, see Chordeiles virginianus. 



Texas, see Chordeiles acutipen- 



nis texensis. 

 Nucifraga columbiana Clarke's crow. 



Feeding on beetles, blueberries, cater- 

 pillars, grasshoppers, Fauna 16, pp. 

 119-121 ; pinon nuts, Fauna 3, p. 

 94 ; seeds of Pinus alUcaulis, Fauna 

 16, p. 119. 

 Food of adults and nestlings, Ybk. 



1900, p. 426. 



Other notes, Fauna 5, pp. 18, 100. 

 Numenius americanus Long-billed curlew. 

 Feeding on grasshoppers, Circ. 79, p. 2. 

 Numenius hudsonicus Hudsonian curlew. 

 Feeding on crowberries (Empetrum 

 nigrum), Fauna 27, p. 331; Ybk. 

 1903, p. 377. 



Nun, Japanese, see Uroloncha acuticauda. 

 Nutcracker, Clarke's, see Nucifraga colum- 

 biana. 

 Nuthatch, Pygmy, see Sitta pygmaea. 



Red-breasted, see Sitta canaden- 



sis. 

 White-breasted, see Sitta caro- 



linensis. 



Nuttallornis borealis Olive-sided fly- 

 catcher. 

 Feeding on boll weevil, Bui. 29, pp. 6, 



15, 24, 30; Circ. 64, p. 5. 

 Nyctala acadica, see Cryptoglaux acadica. 

 Nyctala tengmalmi richardsoni, see Crypto- 

 glaux funerea richardsoni. 

 Nyctea nyctea Snowy owl. 



Beneficial, Ybk. 1895, p. 590; Ybk. 



1896, p. 628. 



Brief account, Circ. 61, pp. 3, 13; Ybk. 

 1894, pp. 217, 226. 



Nyctea nyctea Continued. 



Feeding on brown rat, Bui. 33, p. 35 ; 

 field mice, Bui. 31, p. 50 ; Ybk. 1905, 

 p. 371 ; pocket gophers, Bui. 5, p. 

 21 ; rabbits, Ybk. 1907, p. 336 ; sper- 

 mophiles, Bui. 4, pp. 15, 16; vary- 

 ing hares (Lepus americanus), Fauna 

 27, p. 375. 



Formal report, Bui. 3, pp. 11, 182-187 

 (38 stomachs) ; Kept. 1887, p. 422 

 (6 stomachs). 



Nycticorax nycticorax nsevius Black- 

 crowned night heron. 



Brief account, Bui. 38, p. 26; Ybk. 

 1900, p. 435. 



Feeding on carp, Fauna 7, p. 20 ; 

 field mice, Bui. 31, p. 52. 



Food at Marshall Hall, Bui. 17, pp. 

 53, 81. 



Food of nestlings, Ybk. 1900, p. 435. 



Injurious to fish, hence exempt from 

 protection in certain States, Bui. 12, 

 p. 36; Bui. 12 (rev.), p. 43. 



O. 



Oceanodroma melania Black petrel. 



Feeding on refuse from vessel, Fauna 



14, p. 28. 

 Oidemia americana Scoter. 



Feeding on newly sown millet, Bui. 2, 



p. 73. 

 Oidemia deglandi White-winged scoter. 



Feeding on wild celery, Circ. 81, p. 8. 

 Olbiorchilus hiemalis, see Nannus hiemalis. 

 Olor columbianus Whistling swan. 



Food at Marshall Hall, Bui. 17, p. 81. 

 Oreortyx picta Mountain quail. 



Formal report, Bui. 21, pp. 58-60 (23 



stomachs). 

 Oreoscoptes montanus Sage thrasher. 



Feeding on buffalo berries, Fauna 33, p. 



241. 



Oreospiza chlorura Green-tailed towhee. 

 Feeding on weed seeds, Ybk. 1898, p. 



230. 



Oriole, Baltimore, see Icterus galbula. 

 Bullock's, see Icterus bullocki. 

 Grayson's, see Icterus graysonl. 

 Orchard, see Icterus spurius. 

 Osprey, see Pandion haliaetus carolinen- 



sis. 

 Otocoris alpestris Horned lark. 



Brief account, Kept. 1905, pp. 305-306. 

 Damage to grain, Ybk. 1897, p. 352 ; 



newly sown wheat, Fauna 7, p. 68. 

 Feeding on weed seeds, Ybk. 1898, pp. 



222, 230, 232. 

 Food at Marshall Hall, Bui. 17, pp. 70, 



71, 98. 



Food in California, Bui. 23, pp. 9, 30- 

 32 (267 stomachs) ; Bui. 34, pp. 44- 

 47 (259 stomachs). 

 Food in Europe (of the subspecies 

 flava) similar to that of American, 

 races, Bui. 23, p. 11. 



