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  BIRDS 
  THAT 
  EAT 
  THE 
  COTTON 
  BOLL 
  WEEVIL. 
  

  

  Record 
  of 
  birds 
  examined 
  which 
  had 
  not 
  eaten 
  boll 
  weevils. 
  

  

  Species. 
  

  

  Number 
  of 
  birds 
  exam- 
  

   ined 
  during— 
  

  

  03 
  h 
  

  

  Mourning 
  dove 
  (Zenaidura 
  macroura) 
  2 
  

  

  Mexican 
  ground 
  dove 
  ( 
  Columbigallina 
  p. 
  pallescens) 
  

  

  Yellow-billed 
  cuckoo 
  ( 
  Coccyzus 
  americanus) 
  j 
  

  

  Texan 
  woodpecker 
  (Dryobates 
  scalaris 
  bairdi) 
  

  

  Red-headed 
  woodpecker 
  ( 
  Melanerpes 
  erythrocephalus) 
  

  

  Red-bellied 
  woodpecker 
  ( 
  Centurus 
  carolinus) 
  

  

  Golden-fronted 
  woodpecker 
  ( 
  Centurus 
  aurifrons) 
  

  

  Flicker 
  ( 
  Colaptes 
  auratus) 
  i 
  

  

  Kingbird 
  ( 
  Tyrannus 
  tyrannus) 
  ! 
  

  

  Wood 
  pewee 
  ( 
  Contopus 
  virens) 
  , 
  J 
  

  

  Yellow-bellied 
  flycatcher 
  ( 
  Empidonax 
  flaviventris) 
  : 
  j 
  

  

  Blue 
  jay 
  ( 
  Cyanocitta 
  cristata) 
  j 
  

  

  Rusty 
  blackbird 
  ( 
  Euphagus 
  carolinus) 
  ! 
  

  

  Bronzed 
  grackle 
  (Quiscalus 
  quiscula 
  ssneus) 
  I 
  

  

  Western 
  vesper 
  sparrow 
  (Poosceies 
  gramineus 
  confinis) 
  

  

  Western 
  grasshopper 
  sparrow 
  ( 
  Coturniculus 
  s. 
  bimaculatus) 
  

  

  White-crowned 
  sparrow 
  (Zonotrichia 
  leucophrys) 
  

  

  Western 
  tree 
  sparrow 
  (Spizella 
  monticola 
  ochracea) 
  

  

  Fox 
  sparrow 
  (Passerella 
  iliaca) 
  

  

  Towhee 
  (Pipilo 
  erythrophthalmus) 
  

  

  Blue 
  grosbeak 
  (Guiraca 
  cserulea) 
  

  

  Purple 
  martin 
  (Progne 
  subis) 
  

  

  Nashville 
  warbler 
  {Helminthophila 
  rubricapilla) 
  

  

  Yellow 
  warbler 
  (Dendroica 
  sestiva) 
  

  

  Mourning 
  warbler 
  (Geothlypis 
  Philadelphia) 
  

  

  Curve-billed 
  thrasher 
  ( 
  Toxostoma 
  curvirostre) 
  

  

  Texan 
  Bewick 
  wren 
  ( 
  Thryomanes 
  bewickii 
  cryptus) 
  

  

  Blue-gray 
  gnatcatcher 
  (Polioptila 
  cserulea) 
  

   Bluebird 
  (Sialia 
  

  

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  few 
  species 
  of 
  which 
  only 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  specimens 
  have 
  been 
  examined 
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  the 
  list. 
  

  

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