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Insects lay a yearly tax on American agriculture recently 

 estimated at $1,049,500,000. The list of 135 different insects 

 which the bobwhite has been found to eat includes many of 

 our most destructive pests. The bird is so large in comparison 

 with many of our insect-eating birds that the quantities taken 

 are also interesting. The following are among the records : 



Male Bobwhite, that Hatched Fifteen out of Sixteen Eg-gs 



Two tablespoonsful of chinch bugs, from a single crop ; 5,000 

 aphids at a meal; 1,350 house and stable flies in a day; 1,283 

 rose slugs in a day; 1,532 miscellaneous insects, about 1,000 of 

 them grasshoppers, weight nearly one ounce, the daily ration of 

 a laying hen; 568 mosquitoes in three hours. For the year a 

 bobwhite has, on the average, to his credit about five pounds 

 of insects, over 65,000, and 5,123,000, or nearly ten pounds of 

 weed seeds. 



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