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in numerous stomachs, in each of two instances 10 individuals being 
eaten. The- carrot beetle (Ligyrus gibbosus) and others of the same 
genus occurred frequently in stomachs from Kansas and Missouri, 
though in no case in large numbers. June bugs (Cotinis nitida), 
vine chafers (Anomala spp.), goldsmith beetles (Cotalpa lanigera), 
and other related forms were found now and then in the nestling 
stomachs. The dung-inhabiting scarabaeids (Laparosticti) , are eaten 
by young crows frequently, though the small size of some, as Apho- 
dius, prevents their forming an appreciable portion of the food. 
Tumblebugs (Canthon and Geotrupes) occurred very regularly in 
material from Kansas, in some instances as many as a dozen of these 
large beetles being present in a single stomach. Copris, Ontlwpha- 
gus, and Phanceus carnifex also were found. 
Carabid^e. — Ground beetles formed 3.90 per cent of the food of 
nestlings compared with 5.54 per cent for the adults during approxi- 
mately the same period. Of the caterpillar hunters, Calosoma 
calidum was most often fed to the young, 46 of the 778 nestlings 
having eaten one or more individuals. Calosoma externum, a still 
larger form, was found in numerous stomachs from Kansas, while 
the brightly colored and malodorous C. scrutator was present in 24 
stomachs. Of the large ground beetles, the broad Pasimachus was 
most commonly fed to nestlings. This is especially the case in 
young secured in Missouri and Kansas. A brood of four, partly 
feathered, taken at Onaga, Kans., had eaten 17 of these large 
beetles, along with 3 Calosoma externum, 7 Chlcenius, 2 Scarites, 
and one other ground beetle. They were present in about two- 
fifths of the stomachs taken in this locality, while of the total num- 
ber of 778 nestlings 139 had subsisted upon them. Various other 
ground beetles, Scarites, Harpalus, Evarthrus, Pterostichus, and 
Amara, were present in approximately the same proportions as in 
stomachs of adult crows. At times, when the young were fed on 
members of several genera, the total number eaten was considerable. 
One partly feathered young had eaten no less than 60 individuals 
of the genera Chlceniu-s, Anisodactylus, Cratacanthus, and Scarites. 
Khynchophora. — Nestling crows eat very few weevils. As in the 
case of the adults (see p. 18) the clover-leaf weevil (Hypera 
punctata) and the imbricated snout-beetle {Epicurus imbricatus) 
are the only ones worthy of note. The former was present in 32 of 
the 778 stomachs. One collected in Maryland contained 18 of these 
weevils along with 8 Epiccerus; and another, secured in New York, 
had made away with 11. Imbricated snout-beetles were present 
in 126 stomachs, in two instances as many as 32 individuals being 
recorded. One of the latter two was collected in Maryland and the 
other was of a hatch of five secured in the District of Columbia, each 
