Bul. 868, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. PLATE III. 
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Fic. |1.—STOMACH CONTENTS OF JUVENILE STARLING. 
Nearly 95 per cent of this bird’s food consisted of the remains of 26 clover-leaf weevils, the heads, 
thoraces, and wing covers of which may be seen at the left of the- picture. The large mass in 
the upper right-hand corner is additional débris of the same insects; below it are parts of a 
elowen toot weevil; and in the lower right-hand corner are fragments of the skin of a cultivated 
cherry. 
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FIG. 2.—STOMACH CONTENTS OF JUVENILE STARLING. 
Except for afew bits of vegetable rubbish, shown in the extreme lower right-hand corner of the 
picture, all of this bird’s food consisted of flies in one stage or another of development. There 
were present 1 adult and 76 puparia of Muscidae, at least 85 sarcophagid larvae, and another 
puparium. This bird apparently had been feeding in the vicinity of carrion or garbage. 
