102 



UPLAND GAME BIRDS 



from September 1 to April 30 in those states alone will be 

 1,34-1 tons. 



In 1910 Mrs. Margaret Morse Nice, of Clark University, 

 Worcester, Massachusetts, finished and contributed to the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology (Vol. Ill, No. 3) a masterful 

 investigation of "The Food of the Bob-White." It should 

 be in every library in this land. Mrs. Nice publishes the entire 

 list of 129 species of weed-seeds consumed by the Quail — and 

 it looks like a rogue's gallery. Here is an astounding record, 

 which proves once more that truth is stranger than fiction: 



Number of Seeds Eaten by a Bob-White in One Day 



Barnyard grass 2,500 



Beggar ticks 1,400 



Black mustard 2,500 



Burdock 600 



Crab grass 2,000 



Curled dock 4,175 



Dodder 1,560 



Evening primrose 10,000 



Lamb's quarter 15,000 



Milkweed 



Peppergrass 



Pigweed 



Plantain 



Rabbitsf oot clover 



Round-headed bush clover . . 



Smartweed 



White vervain 



Water smartweed 



770 



2,400 



12,000 



12,500 



30,000 



1,800 



2,250 



18,750 



2,000 



Notably Bad Insects Eaten by the Bob-White 

 (professor judd and MRS. nice) 



Colorado potato beetle. 

 Cucumber beetle. 

 Chinch bug. 

 Bean-leaf beetle. 

 Wireworm. 

 May beetle. 

 Corn billbug. 

 Imbricated-snout beetle. 

 Plant lice. 

 Cabbage butterfly. 

 Mosquito. 

 Squash beetle. 



Clover-leaf beetle. 

 Cotton boll-weevil. 

 Cotton boll-worm. 

 Striped garden caterpillar. 

 Cut-worms. 

 Grasshoppers. 

 Corn-louse ants. 

 Rocky Mountain locust. 

 Codling moth. 

 Canker worm. 

 Hessian fly. 

 Stable fly. 



