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THE ENGLISH SPARROW IN AMERICA. 



List of insects said to be eaten by the Sparrow. 



Kind of insect. 



Ants : 



Red 



Winged 



Kind not specified 



Ants-eggs , 



Aphidos 



Apple-tree worms 



Army- worm 



Bag-worm 



Beetle: 



Tiger ( Cicindela) 



Goldsmith , 



Beetles : Kind not specified' . . 



Blowfly 



Bot-fly 



Borers 



Buffalo moth 



Bags : 



From elm hark 



From cherry tree 



Kind not specified 



Butterfly (turnus) 



Butterfly : 



Vanessa 



Yellow 



Butterflies, hind not specified 



Butterfly larvaB 



Cabbage-butterfly 



Cabbage-moth 



Cabbage-worms 



Canker-worm 



Carabidce 



Carabid larvae 



Caterpillar : 



Fall 



Grape-vine 



Smooth 



Tent .' 



Tree 



Kind not specified 



Cherry -tree worms 



Chinch-bug 



Clear-winged flies from grape. 

 Cicada : 



Seventeen-year 



Kind not specified 



Coccinellidce 



Codling-worm 



Codling-moth 



Coleoptera (larva) 



Crickets 



Curculioof plum 



Currant moth 



Currant worm. 



Cutworm : 



Bronzy 



Kind not specified 



Dragon -flies 



Dung- insects 



Earthworms 



Flea-bugs 



Flies : 



Horse 



"House 



Stable 



Small, black — 



Kind not specified 



Kind of insect. 



Gnats 



Grasshoppers, kind not specified — 

 Grubs or Jarvse, kind not specified. . 



Harpalus vagans 



Honey bees 



Hyphantria (moth) 



Hyphantria (larva) 



Ichneumon flies 



Insects : 



On maples 



On trees 



In wheat 



Kind not specified 



Insect eggs : . . 



June-bug". 



June-bug (larva) 



Katydid 



Larvae of— 



House-fly 



Stable-fly 



Various flies 



Moths 



Leaf -rollers of plum 



Leaf-rollers, kind not specified 



Locusts 



Maggots from dead animal 



May-bug 



May-bug larvae 



May-flies • 



Measuring- worms 



Measuring- worm moth 



Melon bugs of all kinds 



Mosquito 



Moth, luna 



Moth, Gecropia 



Moths or millers, kind not specified 



Muscidce 



Orgyia (moth) 



Orgyia (larvae) 



Orthoptera 



Potato-bug 



Potato-bug larva 



Bose-bug 



Bose-slugs 



Scale inseccs 



Slugs 



Sphinx Carolina 



Spiders, kind not specified 



Squash-bugs 



Tobacco-worm 



Tree-lice 



Wasp 



Weevils 



White-ants (Termes) 



Worms on — 



Fruit-trees 



Elm 



Linden 



Maple 



Pear-tree 



Worms : 



Red 



Small green 



Tree 



Kinds not specified 



In this list there are a dozen or more items which are conspicuous 

 from the number of witnesses reporting them. Thus army- worms, 

 canker-worms, and cabbage- worms aggregate seventy- four reports; 

 caterpillars alone are mentioned in sixty-four reports, and " worms," 



