1912.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 335 
Thus these bobwhites ate, among other things, three species of 
strongly flavored yellow and black Chrysomelide, or leaf beetles, 
and two species of equally if not more pungent Coccinellide or 
ladybirds, whose colors of yellow and black and red, black, and 
yellow are typically “warning.” On the other hand, the birds 
refused one red and black ladybird. It is evident considerations as 
to color of prey have little weight with the quail. It is worthy of 
note also that although these birds refused plant lice, birds experi- 
mented upon by Mrs. Margaret M. Nice ate large numbers of these 
insects. 
Mrs. Nice’s experiments upon bobwhites® which have previously 
been reviewed* by the writer clearly bring out the fact that birds 
will eat in captivity insects which they probably never eat or in 
some cases never even see in their normal existence. Examples are: 
house-flies (Musca domestica) and mosquitoes; 1350 and 568 of 
these insects, respectively, were taken at single meals, but undoubtedly 
they are seldom if ever eaten by wild bobwhites. Silver fish (Lepisma 
saccharina), clothes moths (Tinea pellionella), and mealworms 
(Tenebrio) also were eaten by the captive quail, but wild birds 
probably never have a chance to get these close associates of man. 
The writer does not list the results of Judd’s trials of quail with 
various vegetable foods, but only one item was refused, namely, 
strawberries. These are eaten by wild bobwhites and Judd com- 
ments® on the fact as follows: ‘‘M. B. Waite reports that near 
Odenton, Md., it sometimes picks ripening strawberries. Yet 
birds that were kept in captivity several months refused straw- 
berries when they were hungry.” 
BroaDWINcED Hawk (Buteo platypterus).— 
Accepted: 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Basilona imperialis imago (yellow and purplish-brown). 
BARTRACHIA. 
Bufo sp. 
AVES. 
MIcROPOoDIDs. 
Chetura pelagica (fuscous). 
8 “ Food of the Bobwhite.” By Margaret Morse Nice, Journ. of Economic 
Entomology, Vol. 3, No. 3, June, 1910, pp. 295-313. 
% Journ. Economic Ent., Vol. 3, No. 5, October, 1910, pp. 437-438. 
% Bul. 21, Biol. Survey, 1905, p. 36. 
