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remarks on the food of the Hirundinide, see Harting, ‘ Our 
Summer Migrants,’ pp. 171—174. 
House Martrin.— Mosquitoes (Yarrell). 
Sanp Marrin.—Gnats, small Libellule, and other insects 
(Yarrell). 
Swirr.—Insects, chiefly Staphylinus brachypterus, and spiders 
(Bishop Stanley). 
NEEDLE-TAILED Swirt.—See ‘ Zoologist,’ 1880, pp. 83, 84. 
Niegutsar.—Moths, beetles, and fern-chaffers (Yarrell). 
Rock Dove.—Grain, seeds, and molluses, such as Helix 
virgata, Helix ericitorum, and Bulimus acutus (Yarrell). 
Rine Dove.— Turnip-tops, grain, and seedling potatoes; 
acorns, beechmast, seeds of wild mustard, dock, and rag-weed. 
It also devours quantities of Potentilla anserina, breaking it off in 
pieces about an inch in length. 
Srocx Dove.—Much the same food as the last named. 
PHEASANT.—Wireworms (Stevenson). Insects, ants’ eggs, 
roots of Ranunculus bulbosus and R. jicaria, acorns, sloes, haws, 
blackberries, seeds, buckwheat, green leaves, beans, peas, grain 
(Yarrell). In Hockering Wood the gamekeeper told me the young 
Pheasants were very fond of eating the insects which are contained 
in lumps of white froth adhering to the grasses and other herbage 
—the larvee of Homoptera (I. Norgate). 
CarErcainziz.—The young feed principally at first on ants, 
worms, insects, &c. The old birds feed on the needles and 
shoots of Pinus sylvestris, juniper berries, cranberries, blueberries, 
and other northern berries (Yarrell). 
Buack Grovuse.—The natural food of the young bird at first 
is apparently insects only. It is very partial to the larve of 
Homoptera, and to the seeds of the “sprit” or rush. For a long 
note on the food of both Black and Red Grouse, see Harting, 
‘The Field,’ Feb. 27th, 1875. When reared by hand, the Black 
Grouse thrives on common house-flies, ants’ eggs, and well-scoured 
maggots. 
Parrringe.— Insects, ants’ eggs, green leaves, and grain 
(Yarrell). 
ReD-LEGGED Partripce.—Insects, seeds, grain (Yarrell). 
Vircinian Corin.— Insects, seeds, berries, and grain (Yarrell). 
In Norfolk seeds of furze (Harting). In America it feeds on 
