LEAST FLYCATCHER. 



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HEMIPTERA. 



Brochymena sp 2 I Euura sp 1 



Sinea diadema 2 | 



Vegetable food. — Fruit amounts to 1.83 per cent, and consists of 

 Rubus seeds found in 2 stomachs, elderberry seeds in 2, pokeberry 

 seeds in 1, rough-leaved cornel in 1, and fruit skins not further iden- 

 tified in 4. Various seeds were contained in 6 stomachs, and rub- 

 bish in 3; altogether they amount to 0.34 per cent. 



The following fruits and seeds were identified : 



Elderberries (Sambucus canadensis) . 

 Pokeberries (Phytolacca decandra)... 



Knotweed (Polygonum sp.) 



Timothy (Phleum pratense) 



Foxtail grass (Chsetochloa sp.) 



Yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis stricta) ... 1 

 Blackberries or raspberries (Rubus 



sp-) - 2 



Rough-leaved cornel (Cornus asperi- 

 folia) 1 



Summary. — In the food of the least flycatcher there is no evidence 

 of direct injury to the farmer or horticulturist. The bird eats no 

 grain and practically no fruit or other product of husbandry. It 

 must be allowed that the bird destroys more useful insects than 

 could be wished, but the injury it does in this way is comparatively 

 slight. 



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