[48] REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



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Otter food. 



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Dakota County, Nebraska .. .. 



reb. — , 1865 

 May — , 1865 

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Seeds and buds, 

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43 

 49 

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58 





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June — , 1865 

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July — , 1866 



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Sept. — , 1867 

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'"'55""" 

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Dixon County, ^Nebraska 



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June -,1868 



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July — , 1869 

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Wayne County, Nebraska 





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60 



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5 



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Sept. -,1874 

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 59 



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Oct. —,1874 

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8 



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May —,1875 

 June — , 1875 

 Sept. — , 1876 

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3 



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BoNASA UMBELLUS, (Linn.) Steph. 



Buffed Grouse. 



Eare in Nebraska. Have only seen one in tlie State and that in Richardson County 

 in its southeastern corner. Failed to get this one. I place this grouse in the list of 

 locust-eating birds only because of the known characters of its congeners. 



Subfamily ODONTOPHORIN.^ : American Partridges. 

 . Ortyx virginiana, (Linn.) Bp. 

 Virginia Partridge, or Quail; JBod White. 



Common in Nebraska, but varies a great deal in abundance in different years. This 

 is doubtless largely occasioned by the more or less destruction of them by the carnivora, 

 and their allies, the sporting men. These birds also destroy great numbers of insects. 

 I never opened one whose stomach did not contain more or fewer insects, as the follow- 

 ing list of dissections shows : 



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Dakota County Nebraska ., 



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Seeds. 

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June -, 1865 

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Sept. -,1867 

 June— ,1867 

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July -, 1868 

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Oct. -, 1874 

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