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BULLETIN" 280, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



amount to 0.98 per cent. Spiders (6.34 per cent) are eaten regularly 

 and constantly through the season, except that none were taken in 

 October. A few sowbugs, snails, etc. (2.70 per cent), complete the 

 quota of animal food. Following is a list of insects identified and 

 the number of stomachs in which found : 



HTMENOPTERA. 



Tiphia inornatu 



COLEOFTERA. 



ElapJirus rusearius 



Anisodactylus harrisi 



Anisodactylus sp 



Pterostichus lucublandus-. 



Hydrobius fuscipes 



Ips fasciata 



Byrrhus murinus 



Dolopius lateralis 



Limonius wger 



CorymMtes cylindriformis . 



CorymMtes spinosus 



Cormybites tarsalis 



CorymMtes hieroglypJidcus . 



Podabrus flavicoUis 



Telephorus Mlineatus 



Telephones sp 



Onthophagus sp 



Atcenius cognatus 



Aphodius sp 



Dichelonycha sp 



Serica sericea 



Lochnostema hirticula 1 



Lachnosterna sp 1 13 



Chrysomela pulchra 



Chlamys plicata 



Typophorus canelhts . 



Graphops simplex 



Graphops sp 



Calligrapha philadelphica- 



CEdionychis quercata 



Microrliopala vittata 



Hormorus undulatus 



Phyxelis rigidus 



Otiorhy melius ovatus 



Ncoptochus adspersus 



Cercopeus chrysorrlioeus 



Barypithes pellucidus 



Sitones sp 



Phytonomus nigrirostris 



Conotrachelus nenuphar 



Conotrachelus posticatus _ 



Tyloderma sp 



Monarthrum malt 



Xyloteres politus 



DIPTERA. 



Bibio sp. 



Vegetable food. — The vegetable portion of the food of the species 

 is made up of fruit, with a few seeds and a little miscellaneous mat- 

 ter more or less accidental. Fruit collectively amounts to 35.30 per 

 cent, of which 12.14 per cent was thought to be of cultivated varie- 

 ties and so recorded, while the remainder, 23.16 per cent, was quite 

 certainly of wild species. This percentage of cultivated fruit is 

 more than three times the record of the wood thrush, while the wild 

 fruit eaten is correspondingly less, as the sum total of the fruit con- 

 sumed is very nearly the same with both birds. From this per- 

 centage of domestic fruit one might infer that the veery was, or 

 might be, a serious menace to fruit growing, but no such complaints 

 have been heard, and it is probable that the species is not numerous 

 enough to damage cultivated crops. A close inspection, however, of 

 the fruit eating of the veery removes all doubts. The cultivated 

 fruit, so called, Avas in every case either strawberries or Rubus fruits, 

 i. e., blackberries or raspberries, and as both of these grow wild and 

 in abundance wherever the veery spends its summer, it is probable 

 that all of the fruit eaten was taken from wild plants, though 12.14 

 per cent has been conventionally recorded as cultivated. 



