..;., ' ": UPLAND GAME BIRDS 



from September 1 to April 30 in those states alone will be 

 1,341 tons. 



In 1910 Mrs. Margaret Morse Nice, of Clark University, 

 Worcester, Massachusetts, finished and contributed to the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology (Vol. Ill, No. 3) a masterful 

 investigation of "The Food of the Bob-White." It should 

 be in every library in this land. Mrs. Nice publishes the entire 

 list of 129 species of weed-seeds consumed by the Quail and 

 it looks like a rogue's gallery. Here is an astounding record, 

 which proves once more that truth is stranger than fiction: 



NUMBER OF SEEDS EATEN BY A BOB-WHITE IN ONE DAY 



Barnyard grass 2,500 Milkweed 770 



Beggar ticks 1,400 Peppergrass 2,400 



Black mustard 2,500 Pigweed 12,000 



Burdock 600 Plantain 12,500 



Crab grass 2,000 Rabbitsfoot clover 30,000 



Curled dock 4,175 Round-headed bush clover. . 1,800 



Dodder 1,560 Smartweed 2,250 



Evening primrose 10,000 White vervain 18,750 



Lamb's quarter 15,000 Water smartweed. ..... 2,000 



NOTABLY BAD INSECTS EATEN BY THE BOB-WHITE 

 (PROFESSOR JUDD AND MRS. NICE) 



Colorado potato beetle. Clover-leaf beetle. 



Cucumber beetle. Cotton boll-weevil. 



Chinch bug. Cotton boll-worm. 



Bean-leaf beetle. Striped garden caterpillar. 



Wireworm. Cut-worms. 



May beetle. Grasshoppers. 



Corn billbug. Corn-louse ants. 



Imbricated-snout beetle. Rocky Mountain locust. 



Plant lice. Codling moth. 



Cabbage butterfly. Canker worm. 



Mosquito. Hessian fly. 



Squash beetle. Stable fly. 



