Animal Metter 
Although animal matter formed 21.88 percent of the total food 
consumed, only Orthoptera, June beetles (Diplotaxis sp.), weevils 
' (Ophryastes sp.), sawfly larvae (Tenthredinidae), scale insects (Coccidae), 
and aats (Ischnomyrmex sp.) emounted to more than 1 percent each of the 
total food, and cf these only the first mentioned constituted more than 
Do percent of the total. 
The combined percentage of 322 miscelleneous animal items, no one 
of which totaled as much es 1 percent, amounted to less than 9 1/2 percent. 
These numerous items consisted of insects (Insecta), 292 kinds; millipeds 
(Diplopoda), 1; spiders (Arachnida; Araneida), 24; ticks (Acarina), 
harvestmen (Phalangida), 2; and snails (Gastropoda), 1. The more important 
miscellaneous insects were plant bugs (Heteroptera: Thyanta spp., Aufeius 
spp., Nysius spp., and Lygaeus spp.); leafhoppers (Homoptera: Stictopelta 
spp., Agallia spp., Xerophloea spp., Jassinae, and Fulgoridee); aphids 
(Homoptera: Aphididae); termites (Isoptera: Nasutitormes spp.); beetles 
(Coleoptera), 115 kinds, including ground beetles (Carabidae, Selenophorus 
spp., and Collops spp.), ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae, Coccinella spp., 
and Hippodamia spp.), June beetles (Scarabaeidae, Diplotaxis spp.), leaf 
beetles (Chrysomelidae, Chaetocnema spp., and Diabrotica spp. ); weevils 
(Curculionidae, Sphenophorus spp., and Thecesterms ernus humeralis): fates 
(Diptera); wasps and bees (Hymenoptera); ants (Formicidae); and caterpillars 
' (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae and Noctuidae). 
FOOD OF YOUNG 
In accordence with a prevailing rule of the bird world, the stomachs 
of 9 young scaled quail examined contained a high percentage of animal matter 
(71.17), while vegetable matter comprised the complementary portion (28.83 
percent). Gravel present constituted 6.26 percent of the gross stomach 
contents, 
As in the adults, the vegetable food consisted chiefly of seeds. ‘The 
only fruit remains were desert hackberry (Celtis pallida), 3.44 percent; 
cactus (Qpuntia spp.), 1.06 percent; and nightshade (Solanum spp.), 0.6 
percent. There was a trace of herbage. 
The proportion of the species of seed taken seemed to depend 
upon what was available locally. The birds in the vicinity of cultivated 
ground hed eaten weed seeds, such as pieweed (Amaranthus blitoides), 
3.44 percent; sunflower (Helianthus annuus), 1.33 percent; and puccoon 
(Lithospermum sp.), 1.88 percent. Those from more remote plains or desert 
areas had eaten seeds of low-growing plants of those areas, such as lotus 
(Lotus trispermus), 4.73 percent; sida (Sida diffusa), 3.22 percent; and 
paspalum (Paspalum stramineum), 3.00 percent. In all, 21 kinds of seeds 
were taken, ali of which also appeared in the food of the adults. 
Important animal foods of the young quail included 3 kinds of 
grasshoppers and locusts (iielanoplus sp., Oedipodinae, and other 
Orthoptere), 20,07 percent: 30 kinds of beetles (Coleoptera), 16.71 
percent; 19 kinds of bugs (Heteroptera), 8.69 percent; and 12 kinds of 
leafhoppers (Homoptera), 11.02 percent. 
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