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August 15, 1886. — Sparrows pursuing "flying grasshoppers," (E. Carolina, on Church 

 street. By Mrs. Maria Gardner. 



August 20, 1888. — Three specimens collected iu York Township by Mr. Jas. Milne ; 

 stomachs contained road pickings, broken oats, fragments of grasshoppers. 



August 25, 1886. — Seven specimens, young, collected on Don Flats, north of Win- 

 chester street bridge; contents of stomachs, road pickings, broken oats, seeds of 

 Polygonum aviculare; grasshoppers in all. 



August 27, 18^6. — Five specimens collected by Mr. W. Squires, east of city ; con- 

 tents of stomachs, very sharp sand; in all broken-down vegetable matter; in one, head 

 and femora of C. femur-rubrum. 



August 29, 1886.— Four specimens, all young, collected by Mr. C. Armstrong in 

 Rosedale ; contents of stomachs in all broken-down vegetable matter and portions of 

 C. femur-rub rum. 



September 3, 1886. — Nine specimens collected on Don Flats, near paper mill; three 

 stomachs contained fragments of grasshoppers, two contained pup* of a dipter, one 

 contained three small lepidopterous larvae. 



September 13, 1885. — Fifteen specimens collected in York Township ; all contained 

 the usual broken-down vegetable matter, nine contained portions of grasshoppers, one 

 contained portions of femora of OE, Carolina. 



Of the forty-three specimens collected from August 20 to September 13, twenty- 

 seven, or nearly sixty-three per cent., had been eating grasshoppers. 



May 27, 1887. — A young Sparrow about a week old fell out of nest and was killed ° 

 stomach contained fragments of eggshell, two spiders, one small moth denuded of 

 wings; the head and antennae were fairly well preserved. 



July 17. — Saw two Sparrows pursuing (E. Carolina on Berkeley street. When the 

 grasshopper alighted the Sparrows pounced on him, but he eluded them by darting 

 up on wing, the Sparrows sitting still watching his down-coming. Four unsuccess- 

 ful attacks were made. On the fifth mount he got into some shrubbery and escaped. 



July 19. — Mrs. Maria Gardner handed me a mutilated (E. Carolina over which two 

 Sparrows were contending in the normal school grounds ; the head, both elytra, one 

 wing, and three legs were gone and the thorax was badly crushed. 



July 20, 1887. — About noon saw a Sparrow breaking legs and wings of C. femur- 

 rubrum in front of 325 Parliament street. 



July 20, 1887. — Saw a Sparrow catch and denude of wings and legs a C. femur- 

 rubrum on Berkeley street, and then fly away with it, apparently to nest. 



August 5, 1887. — Caught four specimens of C. bivittatus on Don Flats, liberated them 

 on a patch of Polygonum aviculare. Berkeley street, much frequented by Sparrows. 

 They were immediately attacked by about a dozen Sparrows, and within fifteen min- 

 utes three were killed, torn to pieces, and devoured. 



August 11, 1887. — Two specimens collected by Mr. W. Squires, in the east of the 

 city ; contents of stomachs in both, road pickings and broken oats ; in one, three 

 pupae of a dipter. 



August 31. — Five specimens collected by Mr. D. Cox outside city limits; three 

 stomachs contained spiders and fragments of coleoptera ; one, head and femora of C. 

 femur-rubrum. 



September 12, 1887. — Two specimens collected in city ; contents of stomach, small 

 pieces of egg-shell, road pickings, broken oats. 



September 20, 1887. — Four specimens collected on Don Flats, near paper mill; 

 stomachs all contained small lepidopterous larvae and fragments of grasshoppers. 



Of the three hundred and seven specimens collected from May 7, 1881, to Septem- 

 ber 20, 1887, the stomachs of one hundred and thirty-two, or nearly forty-three per 

 cent., contained insects of several orders, and eighty-five, or nearly twenty-seven per 

 cent., contained grasshoppers of two species, C. femur-rubrum and (E. Carolina. These 

 two, with C. bivittatus, on which I fed them on August 5, 1887, make three species on 

 which the Sparrows feed in the neighborhood of Toronto. 



