FOOD HABITS. 35 



Downy nillkpea (Galactia voliMUif). Bindweed (C'ohi-o/i»/«s sp.). 



I'lMii'ie rhynchosia {DoUcholiis latifo- Corn gromwell (Litlio-fpeniium ar- 



fiiix). rciisi?). 



Trailing wild lieau (•Stropluhftyle-'i hcl- Hoary puecoon ( Lifhosiieninim canes- 



rcola). crux). 



Pink wild bean (StropJiostylcx umhel- Gromwell (Litlwspeniiiiin offichiale). 



lata). Vervain (,Verhena utricta). 



Crane's bill (Ocraiiiuni caroUnianum). Bastard pennyroyal (Trictiosiema 

 Yellow soi'rel {0.ialis stricta). ilichotomiim). 



Croton (C;'o/on sp.)- Ribgrass {Plantago lanceolata). 



Texas croton (Croton trj-ensiii). Button weed (Diodia terex). 



Three-seeded mercury (Acalypha gla- Trumpet creeper {Caiiipxi.s radicuns). 



cilciis). Orange hawkweed (Hicvucium aiiran- 

 Spotted spurge {Euphortiia maculata). tiacunt). 



Flowering spurge {Euphortjia coral- Marsh elder (7i;a cZ/iofa). 



lata)._ Giant ragweed {Ambrosia triflda). 



Red maple (Acer ruhruin). Ragweed (Ambrosia artrmisirrfolia). 



Box elder (Rulac iicfiuiuto). Everlasting (Antennaria sp.). 



Jewel weed (Iinpaticns sp.). Sunflower (Heliantliiis sp.). 



8ida (.S'«(7a spinosa). Common sunflower (Helianthus an- 

 Violet (Viola sp.). )(«».■.•). 



Ash (Fra.riinis sp.). Crownbeard (Verbesina sp.). 



Morning glory (Iponura sp.). Beggar ticks (iJ/(?e».s sp.). 



Mast and Pine Seeds as Food. 



Mast, including acorns of the swamp oak (Que/r- us pahifttris), the 

 white oak (^. alba), beechnuts, the blue h^&ch. {Carpinns earoJini- 

 (/na), and the chestnut, amounts to 2.47 per cent of the food of the 

 year. 



In the pine lands of Florida the bobwhite freely eats the seeds of 

 the long-leaf pine {Pinus palustris). Of the 39 birds from Walton 

 County (Xovember, December, and January, 1902 and 1903), 21 had 

 their crops and stomachs mainly filled with this nutritious food. 

 They had usually clipped off the wings of the samaras close to the 

 large seeds. Several crops were full of germinating pine seeds, some 

 of the embryos having cotyledons 2 inches long. In the region about 

 Washington the seeds of the scrub pine (Pinus cirgbtiana) also are 

 eaten to a small extent. The fact that these seeds are a good winter 

 food should be remembered l3y holders of game preserves. Observa- 

 tions show that the key seeds of the maple also are eaten, though 

 much less extensively. 



Fruit as Food. 



Unlike the catbird and the cedarbird, whose food consists, respec- 

 tively, of 50 and 87 per cent of fruit, the food of bobwhite for the 

 year includes only 9.57 per cent of fruit. It is least frugivorous 

 in spring and most so in June and in December and January, taking 

 20.1 per cent in the summer month and a little over 18 per cent during 

 the two winter months. If more birds collected in June had been 



