354 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [June, 
On pp. 231 and 239 it is stated that gypsy moth eggs were fed to a 
confined English sparrow and a crow. The former ate them 
voluntarily, but “did not appear to relish them”; the: latter 
would not take them except when they were concealed within 
other food. 
It will be noted that in Collins’ experiment (see above) the English 
sparrow took the eggs only when they were forced upon it. 
Herrick, F.H. The Home Life of Wild Birds. New York, 1901. 
Young kingfishers rejected raw meat, but throve on fish in cap- 
tivity (p. 92). 
Hopes, C. F. Our Common Birds. Nature Study Leaflet, Biol. 
Ser. No. 2, Worcester, Mass., 1899. . 
A young cedarbird took flies, poke berries, cabbage worms, “edema” 
larve, ants, fall web worms (a little sparingly), bush cranberries, 
and peppermint drops (p. 15). Mockingbirds accepted meal- 
worms and spiders (p. 19). 
Hopee, C.F. [Food of Young Ruffed Grouse.) Rep. Comm. 
Fisheries and Game, Mass., 1903 (1904), pp. 182, 183. 
“T tested them with a great variety of prepared foods—grated 
egg, bread crurhbs, scraped raw meat, grated boiled meat, grits, 
boiled rice, millet and other small seeds, grass, clover, chickweed, 
partridge, and wintergreen berries, etc. They would either 
pay no attention to any of these things, or, if they did pick at 
them at all, would not do so but once.’”’ Foods accepted were 
sweet curds, earthworms, mosquito larve, plant lice, mealy 
bugs, thrips, mealworms and maggots. 
Hopesr, C. F. A Summer with the Bluebirds. Bird Lore, 6, No. 2, 
March-April, 1904. 
“In my series of feeding tests I brought in a number of potato 
beetles and thoughtlessly dropped a large larva into an open 
mouth, before observing whether they would take them of their 
own accord. I notieed that they picked them up once apiece, 
wiped their bills in disgust, and declined to touch them again. 
Next morning one of the birds was dead under the perch” (p. 45). 
Hopes, C.F. [Food of Young Ruffed Grouse.] Rep. Comm. 
Fisheries and Game, Mass., 1904 (1905), pp. 132, 133. 
Gives a long list of foods accepted; pears and peaches were scarcely 
more than tasted; thorn-apples, barberries, and black alder 
berries were not refused, but were taken in large quantities; 
they took quantities of all sorts of leaves except grape, snowball, 
artichoke, and Rosa rugosa. 
Thorn-apples and black alder berries are commonly eaten by wild 
ruffed grouse. See Biological Survey, Bul. 24, 1905, pp. 36-38. 
Hopcez, C. F. [Food of Ruffed Grouse in Confinement.) Rep. 
Comm. Fisheries and Game, Mass., 1905 (1906), pp. 65-68. 
Gives names of numerous food items accepted. Berries of black 
alder were taken sparingly; oats and barley were eaten spar- 
ingly; peas and beans were refused. 
