10 BULLETIN 280, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
amount to 0.98 percent. Spiders (6.34 per cent) are eaten regularly 
and constantly through the season, except that none were taken in 
October. A few sowbugs, snails, etc. (2.70 per cent), complete the 
quota of animal food. Following is a list of insects identified and 
the number of stomachs in which found: 
HYMENOPTERA. Loachnosterna Mricula=—_ 
WFACRNOSTCTILG Sa eee 1 
TaphiG: Mmormngtt,. 2222 set se ee 1A Chriysonielapulcni@ a= oe ee 
ChIGNYS SDC eee 
COLEOFTERA. PY PODLOTUS COM CULS ae ae 
Graphopsesimpler = eee 
GrOPRODS 3S 2a ee ee ee ee 
Calligrapha philadelphica______ 
Gidionychis quercate== == 
MAGrOTNODGLG 2Uutl Ua ee ee 
VT OTINOTAUS LLU S 
PRYLCUSMMOIUS = SS ee eee 
OOF RUNCKUSMOCUMS === eee 
IN €ODLOCRUS) GASDECTSUS == sa Eee 
CELKCOpCUuSs CRRYSOMheis. ae 
Barypunes pein. 
SULONES ISD ee ee ee 
Phytonomus nigrirostris______~$—-—____ 
Conotrachelus nenuphar—= = =_—__ = : 
Conotrachetus, posticaius=—— = 
TYUlLOGerINMG SP 2 ieee Be Pew ES ee 
MONOChNAN Ge 
XYloteres’ politus = ee 
ERO DRRUSS TUS CONUS = a 
AGU SOCACTULUS ROTTS) oe 
ATISO@AGLILUS, (SDae = eee 
Pterostichus tlucublandus____---~—~-—~ 
ELTOUEOOUUS MES CUD CS ee pen ace 
LDS OSCIOUG 2 SO SE Se ee a St 
[BUOTTAWOES GiVOIRE CUS SS eee = 
Moltopis tateralis ==—= 2s pant rei 
INONVUS eg Ch ee ee 
Corymbites cylindriformis ___-__—--__ 
Corymortes’ Spin0sus ———_ 
Conmnyortes La7salis= == ee 
Corymbites hieroglyphicus_—~_——_____~ 
POCUUGUS a ILAULCOLliS== == ae ee 
Telephorus. bilineatus ———-— —— — 
MELCVNOMIS SD = eee 
OnthOphagusasp = eas 
AtLenus cognatus—_—— = == Spe case a 
AUDILO GAALS AS Dp ee St 
DD CRELONUCKOGS) a. a ee eee 
SCHIGOMS CHLGEO = Seeks Ee er eet 
DD OO RL DD ODD BE et Ot fet EE ODD DE et et 
Bibio sp--~-~--------~-~----------- 1 
Vegetable food.—The vegetable portion of the food of the species 
is made up of fruit, with a few seeds and a little miscellaneous mat- 
ter more or less accidental. Fruit collectively amounts to 35.30 per 
cent, of which 12.14 per cent was thought to be of cultivated varie- 
ties and so recorded, while the remainder, 23.16 per cent, was quite 
certainly of wild species. This percentage of cultivated fruit is 
more than three times the record of the wood thrush, while the wild 
fruit eaten is correspondingly less, as the sum total of the fruit con- 
sumed is very nearly the same with both birds. From this per- 
centage of domestic fruit one might infer that the veery was, or 
might be, a serious menace to fruit growing, but no such complaints 
have been heard, and it is probable that the species is not numerous 
enough to damage cultivated crops. A close inspection, however, of 
the fruit eating of the veery removes all doubts. The cultivated 
fruit, so called, was in every case either strawberries or Rubus fruits, 
i. e., blackberries or raspberries, and as both of these grow wild and 
in abundance wherever the veery spends its summer, it is probable 
that all of the fruit eaten was taken from wild plants, though 12.14 
per cent has been conventionally. recorded as cultivated. 
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