INDEX. 



Agelaius phceniceus fortis, 18-20. 

 Alfalfa weevil. See Weevil, alfalfa. 

 Ambystoma tigrinum, 58. 

 Aphelocoma woodhousei, "14-15. 

 Arkansas kingbird, 9. 



Bank swallow, 40. 



Birds feeding on weevil, distribution of, 

 3-4. 



list of, 4-5. 



not feeding on weevil, list of, 57. 

 Blackbird, Brewer's, 23-27, 62. 



red-winged, 18-20. 



yellow-headed, 17-18. 

 Black-headed grosbeak, 37-38. 

 Bluebird, mountain, 45-46. 

 Bobolink, 15. 



Bounty laws, 36, 56-57, 62. 

 Brewer's blackbird, 23-27, 62. 



sparrow, 34-35. 

 Bufo lentiginosus woodhousei, 58-60. 

 Bullock's oriole, 22-23. 

 Bunting, lazuli, 38-39. 



California gull, 5-6. 



Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis, 27—28. 



Chat, long-tailed, 41-42. 



Chickadee, long-tailed, 42-43. 



Chipping sparrow, western, 33. 



Chondestes grammacus strigatus, 31-33. 



Cliff swallow, 39-40. 



Colaptes cafer colearis, 9. 



Conclusion, 61-62. 



Cowbird, 15-16. 



Cyanocitta stelleri diademata, 14. 



Dendroica sestiva sestiva, 41. 

 Desert horned lark, 10-11. 



song sparrow, 35-36. 

 Distribution of weevil-eating birds, 3-4. 

 Dolichonyx oryzivorus, 15. 

 Domestic fowls as weevil enemies, 57-58. 

 Dove, western mourning, 8-9. 



Empidonax trailli trailli, 10. 

 Enemies of alfalfa weevil, birds as, list of, 

 4-5. 



domestic fowls as, 57-58. 



other vertebrate, 58. 

 English sparrow, 46-57, 62. 

 Euphagus cyanocephalus, 23-27. 

 Eutsenia sp., 58. 



Finch, house, 27-28. 

 Flicker, red-shafted, 9. 



Flycatcher, Traill's, 10. 



Fowls, domestic, as weevil enemies, 57-58. 



Frog, leopard, 60-61. 



Garter snake, 58. 

 Green-tailed towhee, 37. 

 Grosbeak, black-headed, 37-38. 

 Gull, California, 5-6. 



Horned lark, desert, 10-11. 



"toad," 58. 

 House finch, 27-28. 



Icteria virens longicauda, 41-42. 



Icterus bullocki, 22-23. 



Importation and spread of alfalfa weevil, 



1-2. 

 Introduction, 1. 



Jay, long-crested, 14. 



Woodhouse's, 14-15. 



Killdeer, 6-7. 

 Kingbird, Arkansas, 9. 



Lacertilia, 58. 



Lark, desert horned, 10-11. 



sparrow, western, 31-33. 

 Larus californicus, 5-6. 

 Lazuli bunting, 38-39. 

 Leopard frog, 60-61. 

 Life history of alfalfa weevil, 2-3. 

 Lincoln's sparrow, 36. 

 Long-crested jay, 14. 

 Long-tailed chat, 41-42. 



chickadee, 42-43. 

 Lophortyx californica vallicola, 8. 



Macgillivray's warbler, 41. 

 Magpie, 11-14. 

 Meadowlark, western, 20-22. 

 Melospiza lincolni lincolni, 36. 



melodia fallax, 35—36. 

 Molothrus ater ater, 15-16. 

 Mountain bluebird, 45-46. 

 Mourning dove, western, 8-9. 



Oporornis tolmiei, 41. 



Oreoscoptes montanus, 42. 



Oreospiza chlorura, 37. 



Oriole, Bullock's, 22-23. 



Otocoris alpestris leucolasma, 10-11. 



Oxyechus vociferus, 6-7. 



Passer domesticus, 46-57. 

 Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus, 30- 

 31. 



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