THE QUAIL'S INSECT FOOD 103 



Si MMARl OF THE Qi UL.'s [nSECT FOOD 



Orthoptera- Grasshoppers and locusts 13 species 



Hemiptera Bugs 24 



Homoptera Leaf-hoppers and plant lice 6 



Lepidoptera — Moths, caterpillars, cut-worms, etc 1!» 



Diptera— Flies 8 



Coleoptera — Beetles e,\ 



Hymenoptera — Ants, wasps, slugs 8 



Other insects (> 



Total 11.3 " 



A Few Sample Meals of Insects.— The following are rec- 

 ords of single individual meals of the Bob-White: 



Of grasshoppers, 84; chinch bugs, LOO; squash bugs, 12; 

 army worm, 12; cut-worm, 12; mosquitoes, .*>(iS in three hours; 

 cotton boll-weevil, 47; flies, 1,350; rose slugs, 1,286. Mis- 

 cellaneous insects consumed by a laying-hen Quail. 1,532, of 

 which 1,000 were grasshoppers; total weight of the lot, 24.6 

 grams. 



"F. M. Howard, of Beeville, Texas, wrote to the U. S. 

 Bureau of Entomology, that the Bob-Whites shot in his vicin- 

 ity had their crops filled with the weevils. Another farmer re- 

 ported his cotton-fields full of Quail, and an entire absence of 

 weevils." (Texas and Georgia papers please cop 



Surely it is unnecessary to point out the logic- of the facts 

 recorded above. 



The flesh of this bird is a great table delicacy — provided 

 it has not been kept in cold storage. A cold-storage Quail 

 is as good to the taste as a chunk of pressed sawdust, but no 

 better; and as human food an eminent New York physician. 

 Dr. Robert T. Morris, pronounces it unwholesome and danger- 

 ous. In flavor, cold-storage Quail is far inferior to fresh 



