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FOOD OF THE FLYCATCHERS. 



contained grasshoppers or crickets and 8 held no other food. Cater- 

 pillars, with a few moths, constitute a small but rather regular 

 article of diet with the scissortail. They amount to 4.61 per cent 

 for the year and were found in the stomachs of every month except 

 October. In several stomachs the cotton leaf worm (Alabama 

 argiUacea) was identified and the cotton bollworm (HeliotMs ohso- 

 leta) in another. Both of these are well-known pests of the cotton 

 plant and also feed upon a number of other cultivated plants. The 

 latter is also well known as the corn worm, because it feeds upon the 

 sweet corn of the garden. It also preys upon tomatoes and occa- 

 sionally upon beans and peas. A few dragon flies and some other 

 miscellaneous insects and spiders make the rest of the animal food, 

 4.92 percent. 



Following is a list of the insects identified in the stomachs and 

 the number of stomachs in which each is contained: 



IIYMEXOPTERA (bees and wasps). 



Vespa ep 1 



Chrysis sp 1 



Ophion sp 1 



Eogonomyrmex sp 4 



Onl/KorTERA (beetles). 



Cicindcla rectiktlcra 2 



Cicindela schauppii 2 



Megilla metadata 1 



Coccinella abdominal is 1 



Hister abbreviatus 1 



Acmaeodcra viilitaris 1 



Ellychnia comisca 1 



Chauliognathus marginatv 8 2 



Canthon lecontci 4 



Canthon q/anellus 1 



Canthon laevis 1 



Canthon sp 2 



Onthophagus pennsylix n 'cut 1 



Onthophagus sp 1 



Bolboceras farctus 1 



Dichelonycha sp 1 



Lachnosterna sp 1 



Euphoria fid 'gida 1 



Euphoria inch 1 



Stenosphcnus delosus 1 



Cylkne criu icorn is 2 



Cyllcne robinix 1 



Lcptura sp ' 1 



Oberea sp 1 



Cryplocephalus cribripenn i; 1 



Diabrotica 12-punctata 1 



Macrobasis albida 4 



Epicauta Inn n iscata 2 



Epicauta funebris 4 



Epicauta ep 1 



Ophryastcs lubcrosus . 2 



Phacepholis clcgans 1 



Anthonomus grandis 4 



Balaninus sp 2 



Calandra oryzx 1 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Cotton leaf worm {Alabama argil- I Cotton bollworm (HeliotMs obsoleta). 1 

 ..... 3 J 



HEMIPTERA (bugs). 



Euschistus sp 1 



Thyanta enstator 2 



A nasa tristis 2 



I'hymata sp 1 



Zaitha sp 1 



Cicada sp 1 



A ulacizea irrorata 1 



Stirctnia anclinrago 1 



(Ebalut pugna t l 



Eu8chislus 8ervus 1 



