Bui. 868, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate III. 



Fig. I.— Stomach Contents of Juvenile Starling. 



Nearly 95 per cent of this bird's food consisted of the remains of 26 clover-leaf weevils, the heads, 

 thoraces, and wing covers of which may be seen at the left of the picture. The large mass in 

 the upper right-hand corner is additional debris of the same insects; below it are parts of a 

 clover-root weevil; and in the lower right-hand corner are fragments of the skin of a cultivated 

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Fig. 2.— Stomach Contents of Juvenile Starling. 



Except for a few bits of vegetable rubbish, shown in the extreme lower right-hand corner of the 

 picture, all of this bird's food consisted of flies in one stage or another of development. There 

 were present 1 adult and 76 puparia of Muscidae, at least 85 sarcophagid larvae, and another 

 puparium. This bird apparently had been feeding in the vicinity of carrion or garbage. 



