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year, but in quantities varying greatly from month to month. In a 

 general way, however, more were eaten in the summer season. 



Hemiptera, or bugs, amount to 1.86 per cent of the food, and form 

 a small but fairly regular constituent of the monthly diet. Scales 

 were found in one stomach, but most of the bugs eaten were of larger 

 species, and the majority were Pentatomidae or stink-bugs. Cater- 

 pillars were taken quite regularly, and average 2.88 per cent of the 

 diet. A few of them were identified as wood-borers. Spiders and 

 millepeds, with a few doubtful insects and small vertebrates, make 

 up 2.29 per cent, the remainder of the animal food. Spiders were 

 eaten at all times, but in trifling quantities. Small tree frogs were 

 found in 9 stomachs and remains of a lizard (Anolis carolinensis) in 2. 

 One stomach contained the lingual ribbon of a snail. 



The following is a list of the insects identified: 



COLEOPTERA. 



Calosoma wilcoxi. Lachnosterna sp. 



Pasimachus depressus. Nodonota puncticollis. 



Pasimachus sp. Hylobius pales. 



Catogenus rufus. Lixus sp. 



Ips fasciatus . Dorytomus mucidus. 



Trogosita virescens. Pseudomus truncatus. 



Melanotus sp. Cryptorhynchus obliquus. 



Passalus cornutus. Balaninus sp. 



Dichelonycha sp. Cratoparis lunatus. 



HEMIPTERA. 



Nezara hilaris. 



Vegetable food. — Corn was the only grain found in the food of the 

 red-bellied woodpecker. It was contained in 39 stomachs, rather 

 irregularly distributed through the year, but none in the three sum- 

 mer months, April, or November. The great bulk was eaten in the 

 three winter months and in March and September. In September it 

 was undoubtedly from the green ear in the field, but the rest must 

 have been waste. The total for the year is 3.99 per cent. Fruit 

 amounts to 27.28 per cent and forms a notable percentage of the 

 food in every month. The month of greatest consumption is August, 

 with 64.10 per cent, while April shows the least, 7.50 per cent. The 

 larger part of this consists of mid fruit, of which 23 species were 

 identified. What was thought to be apple pulp was found in one 

 stomach, cultivated grape in one, and blackberry or raspberry in one. 

 Fruit pulp not further identified occurred in 15 stomachs and may 

 have been of cultivated varieties. Xo great preference is shown for 

 any one species of wild berry, but mulberries, woodbine, fox grapes, 

 and sour gum were found in the most stomachs. 



Mast amounts to 30.70 per cent and is the largest item of food. 

 Acorns, beechnuts, hazelnuts, and pecans make up most of this 



