FOOD HABITS OF THRUSHES. a 
regularity (38.86 per cent) throughout the season, but not in large 
quantities. Diptera (flies) are eaten in small quantities and rather 
irregularly. Most of them were the long-legged crane flies (Tipuli- 
dee), both in the adult and larval form. The total for the season is 
2.70 per cent. Hemiptera (bugs) do not appear to be a favorite 
food, though a few were taken in all of the seven months except 
October. The average for the season is only 1.33 per cent. Orthop- 
tera (grasshoppers) are eaten in small quantities until July, after 
which they form a fair percentage till September. The total con- 
sumption amounts to 2.28 per cent of the food. A few other in- 
sects make up a fraction of 1 per cent. Spiders and myriapods 
(thousand-legs) appear to be a favorite food with the wood thrush, 
constituting in April 20.94 per cent of the food, but gradually de- 
creasing in quantity until September. The aggregate for the year 
is 8.49 per cent. A few sowbugs (isopods), snails, and earthworms 
(1.83 per cent) close the account of animal food. 
Following is a list of the insects identified in the stomachs of the 
wood thrush and the number of stomachs in which each was found: 
HYMENOPTERA. Chrysomela pulehras 2s 1 
Leptinotarsa decemlineata___________ 2 
LDRAG= NOT nate enea Se Mee) eS UL 2H] ONGKOE EOS TR SY Oe) SA 1 
CoptocyclaeStgnei pera] eae ss hates ee 1 
COLEOPTERA. Coptocycla. sp fr ag ce 1 
PUL GIORS. (O USTEU IS ae ae IS eat 1 
Harpalus herbivagus_—- ~~~ is 8 i Set a UW |) SECO ARAIS. ROO UC ONG ee oe Ea i 
Necrophorus tomentosus_____________ LW Ofer hynCnus, Guatus == 8 ae 2 
Phitonthus LOmattss 2 ee ee fe ROVYMUCCUSACONfCLLU Gm ees eee ee 1 
TSS tEVIAUUTEUIGTUS = Se eS 1 | Pandeletejus_hilaris_.—_.___._--_=_=_ ft 
TTASCOTE LED ICO LO Ta LW Bparypithes. petlucidus2 =] I 
Haster americanus. 22> 2.) Listronotus) tatiuseultus_ = ii 
LGSAGUOAGCTAG LECTUS 28 eee ek LE REC CEODS GSP te ate Lied ee ae ee a 
Melanotus americanus_____-_-_--__~_ i) Conotrjachelus posticatus = = 222 rs 2 
Corymbites cylindriformis____________ Al PACULICSH COMIN GEES = karat ae ee 1 
Agstlas (O1INNeatuss i= =. 22 ne ete il Ralaninus spss". 3) shee Ea 2 
Pelephorus carolinus.____ = Gs EAL SUES ANU A UATE Ce cee fe 
Onthophagus striatulus______________ 1 | Sphenophorus parvulus____ Be Nate 1 
Onthophagus tuberculifrons__________ 1 
Onthophagus sp__----___-_— ti 3 HEMIPTERA. 
PAC EAULU SES ase ne es a Se AS ee 2 
ADROGIUS ORONATIUSE as 22S Ae BLN INIT RCT A O IAHR IS) seat =e BIS 2 
VAUD TUOG AU Sta: Seen ed a Sas Wee a il 
Diehetonycha testacea._—_ 2 =. 1 ORTHOPTERA. 
DiGhelOnuChaaspte ee 1 
USCCRVOSCETILG Sy) ek Ss es ee 27 | Diapheromera femorata _______.__-_-___ 1 
AGU UUSHES Irate a Eg a REA oe 1 
FA LOW TUUTUCMEAUEUUG Oar SS ee 1 ISOPTERA. 
SHO OGRE {LUGS BO eee 1 
BUD NOGA Rat eee bakes opt SIRE ES A Rae CR NUCS a ULUL DCS nee a a ee eee eee ii 
Vegetable food—More than nine-tenths of the vegetable food of 
the wood thrush can be included in a single item—fruit. Culti- 
vated fruit, or what was thought to be such, was found in stomachs 
taken from June to September, inclusive. It was eaten regularly 
