NATURAL ENEMIES OF THE COCCID.^ : BIRDS. 



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? , Cheshire, 

 Feb. 2nd, 

 1894. 



$ , Cheshire, 

 Feb. 7th, 

 1900. 



c? , Cheshire, 

 Feb. 7th, 

 1900. 



? , Cheshire, 

 Feb. 7th, 

 1900. 



S , Cheshire, 

 Feb. 7th, 

 1900. 



Sex ?, Cheshire, 



Feb. 7th, 



1900. 



Sex ?, Cheshire, 



April 3rd, 



1894. 



f Four specimens of Mytilaspis pomo- 



!'rum; also fragments of bud scales 

 and particles of maize. 

 Thirty-six specimens of Mytilaspis 

 pomorum, two brown pupa-cases of 

 small Dipterous insect, and a quantity 

 of particles of wheat grains. 



Fifty-three specimens of Mytilaspis 

 pomorum, a few fragments of small 

 Coleoptera, and wheat grains. 



One specimen of Mytilaspis pomo- 

 rum; several small spiders in frag- 

 I ments ; apple rind, and particles of 

 [wheat grains. 



One specimen of Mytilaspis porno- 

 rum ; remainder filled with minute 

 fragments of a hard black fungus, also 

 found in an example examined January 

 24th, 1900. 



One specimen of Mytilaspis pomo- 

 rum; a few bud-scales, and particles 

 of wheat grains ; rest of stomach filled 

 and unusually distended with frag- 

 ments of the same hard black fungus 

 found in the previous examples. 



Asterodmspis qiiercicola, many ; also 

 numerous Cynips, and larvae of 

 Micro-Lepidoptera. 



The above are selected from twenty-one post- 

 mortem examinations made ; four in January, thirteen 

 in February, two in April, and two in July. 



The maize and wheat had undoubtedly been pro- 

 cured from the farm-yards in the localities from which 

 the birds had been obtained. Of all the ParidaB the 

 blue titmouse in winter feeds more extensively upon 

 corn than any other species. 



