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FOOD OF THE FLYCATCHEKS. 



Lema trilineata 2 



Chlamys plicata 2 



Crytocephalus venustus 1 



Myochrous denticollis 2 



Diabrotica 12-punctata 3 



Diabrotica vittata 1 



Galerucella sp 3 



Blepharida rhois 1 



Disonycha caroliniana 2 



Odontota dorsalis 1 



Odontota sp 2 



Chelymorpha cribraria 1 



Blapstinus sp 1 



Tricrania sanguinipennis 1 



Negalius marmoratus 1 



Epicauta pennsylvanica 1 



Phyxelis rigidus 1 



Cercopeus chrysorrhceus 1 



Tanymecus lacsena 1 



Macrops sp 1 



Anthonomus signatus 1 



Anthonomus grandis 6 



Conotrachelus posticatus 



ChalcodermiLS sp 



Acalles carinatus 



Rhinoncus pyrrhopus 



Balaninus rictoriensis 



Balaninus sp 



Sphenophorus compressiroslr.s. . . . 



Sphenophorus sp 



Rhodobxnus IS-punctatus 



Scatophaga stercoraria. 



DIPTERA. 



] Eristnlis sp. 



TIEMIPTERA. 



Cicada sp 2 



Oncometopia undata 1 



Aulacizes irrorala 1 



Aulacizes lateralis 1 



Tettigonia sp 1 



Euscliistus sp 1 



Brochymena sp 1 



Metapodius femoratus 1 



Myodocha serripes 1 



Xabis 8ubcoleoptratu8 2 



Sinea diadema 5 



Milyas ductus 1 



Hygrotrech us sp 4 



ORTHOPTERA. 

 Melanophisfi m ur-nihrum 1 | Tcttix sp 10 



ODOXATA. 

 Agrion sp 1 



ACARINA. 



Ixodes sea piilari* 2 Margaropus annulatus 1 



}'<(/< table food. — The vegetable food of the phocbe may be placed in 

 two categories, fruit and sor<ls. Fruit amounts to 4.99 per cent. In 

 May and Juno, the months of strawberries and cherries, no fruit at all 

 was taken. In July 1 per cent was eaten, and from this point it 

 increases slowly to December and January, with 10.73 and 10. S4 per 

 cent, respectively. The only tiling found suggestive of cultivated 

 fruit was the seeds of blackberries or raspberries contained in 5 

 stomachs. Of small wild berries 17 species were identified, besides a 

 number of seeds, but nothing of any economic value was found. 

 There were several species of seed-, but the only ones of interest were 

 the poison ivy and poison sumac, whose seeds the birds distribute, 



