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FOOD OP WOODPECKERS OP UNITED STATES. 



these creatures breed in the earth, this again shows the terrestrial 

 habits of tlie flicker. Spiders and rayriapods were found in a good 

 many stomachs, but few were taken at one time, so the aggregate is 

 not large. Crustaceans, in the form of Oniscus (sowbugs), were 

 found in 5 stomachs. Snail shells, mostly fragments, were of fre- 

 quent occurrence, and one was identified as Zonitoides minusculus. 

 The total of these miscellaneous creatures is 1.49 per cent, which 

 completes the record of animal food. 



The following is a list of the insects identified in the stomachs : 



COLEOPTERA. 



' 'idndela vulgaris. 

 Calosoma calidum. 

 Elaphrus ohliteratus. 

 Scarites subterraneus. 

 Pterostichus sayi. 

 Amara exarata. 

 Amara impunciicollis. 

 Amara angulata. 

 Calathus ingratus. 

 Platynus placidus. 

 Platynus punctiformis. 

 Bradiynus puherulus. 

 Chlxnius sp. 

 Agonoderus pallipes. 

 Harpalus fa unus . 

 Harpalus pennsylvanicus. 

 Harpalus pleuriticus. 

 Harpalus ellipsis. 

 Anisodactylus rusticus. 

 Anisodactylus sp, 

 Stenus shoshonis. 



Formica obscuripes. 

 Formica nilidiventris. 

 Formica subsericea. 

 Formica subpolita. 

 Formica gagates. 

 Formica subsenescens. 

 Formica sp. 

 Lasius claviger. 

 Lasius aphidicola. 

 Lasius brevicornis. 

 Lasius americanus. 

 Lasius alienus. 

 Lasius miniatus. 

 Lasius suhniger. 

 Lasius sp'. 



Camponotus marginatus. 

 Camponotus melleus. 

 Camponotus pennsylvanicus. 



Qtiedius prostrans. 

 Stelidota 8-maculata. 

 ilelanotus communis. 

 Copris minulus. 

 Onthophagus hecate. 

 Onthophagus sp. 

 Aphodius finietarius. 

 Aphodius inquinatus. 

 Aphodius bicolor. 

 Aphodius sp. 

 Lachnosterna sp. 

 Ligyrus sp. 

 Caryoborus arthriticus. 

 Opatrinus aciculatus. 

 Blapstinus pruinosus. 

 Blapstinus puherulentus. 

 Blapstinus sp. 

 Tanymecus confertus. 

 Sitones hispidulus. 

 Phytonomus punclatus. 

 Sphenophorus sp. 



HYMENOPTEHA (aNTS). 



Camponotus minutus. 

 Camponotus pictus. 

 Camponotus sp. 

 Myrmica scabrinodis. 

 Myrmica sabuleti. 

 Myrmica sp. 



Cremastogaster Iseviuscula. 

 Cremastogaster minutissimi. 

 Cremastogaster sp. 

 Aphsenogaster picea. 

 Aphsenogaster fulvum. 

 Aphssnogaster treatx. 

 Aphxnogasier sp. 

 Prenolepis imparls. 

 Pheidole sp. 

 Solenopsis geminata. 

 Solenopsis debilis. 

 Tetramorium sp. 



