NOTES ON THE FOOD OF BIRDS. 825 
Hessian-flies, ants, beetles, flies, gnats, moths, grubs, wireworms, 
pupe, larve, potato-bugs (i. e., Colorado beetle), striped vine-bugs, 
chinch-bugs, cut-worms (hundreds of chinches found in one bird), 
locusts, and grasshoppers (Mr. Archer, and the State Ento- 
mologist for Missouri). For further interesting particulars, see 
‘The Field,’ Dec. 13th, 187S. 
Quain.—Insects, green leaves, seeds, and grain (Yarrell). In 
Ohio the Government stopped Quail-shooting for several years, 
on account of their great value to farmers as destroyers of grubs 
and wireworms. See leading article on Game and Game Laws in 
America (‘The Field,’ May 1st, 1880, p. 527). 
Great Busrarp. — Beetles, mole-crickets, grasshoppers, 
worms, snails, mice, &c. (Stevenson). Also green corn, grasses, 
trefoil and other vegetables, and probably reptiles (Yarrell). 
Norrotk Puover or THIcK-KNEE.—Coleoptera, snails, ear- 
wigs, worms, slugs, and frogs (Stevenson). Insects, worms, slugs, 
Coleoptera of the genus Carabus (Yarrell). Beetles and worms 
(Lubbock). 
Lirtte Bustarp.—Insects, herbs, grain, lungwort, dandelion, 
grass, and leaves of white turnip (Yarrell). 
GoLpEN Piover.—Insects, slugs, and worms (Yarrell). 
Dorrrren. — Insects and their larve, worms, and slugs. 
During the breeding season, small Coleoptera (Yarrell). 
Rincep Puover, Kentish Puiover, and Lirrne Rineep 
Piover.—Insects, worms, and small Crustacea, such as shrimps 
and sandhoppers (Yarrell). The Kentish Plover is believed to 
feed chiefly on a very active species of spider which is abundant 
on the beach (H. A. Dombrain, Zool. 1880, p. 188). In the 
stomach of a Little Ringed Plover shot at Kingsbury Reservoir, 
Middlesex, Mr. Harting found several small beetles and a single 
caddis-worm. In the Common Ringed Plover, besides the remains 
of small beetles and worms, he has also noticed a mass of semi- 
digested vegetable matter, and invariably some small particles of 
coarse sand or gravel. 
(To be continued.) 
