INDEX. 
Agelaius phceniceus fortis, 18-20. 
Alfalfa weevil. See Weevil, alfalfa. 
Ambystoma tigrinum, 58. 
Aphelocoma woodhousei, 14-15. 
Arkansas kingbird, 9. 
Bank swallow, 40. 
Birds feeding on weevil, distribution of, 
3-4. 
list of, 4-5. 
rot feeding on weevil, list of, 57. 
Blackbird, Brewer's, 23-27, 62. 
red-winged, 18-20. 
yellow-headed, 17-18. 
Black-headed grosbeak, 37-38. 
Bluebird, mountain, 45-46. 
Bobolink, 15. 
Bounty laws, 36, 56-57, 62. 
Brewer's blackbird, 23-27, 62. 
sparrow, 34-35. 
Bufo lentiginosus woodhousei, 58-60. 
Bullock's oriole, 22-23. 
Bunting, lazuli, 38-39. 
California gull, 5-6. 
Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis, 27-28. 
Chat, long-tailed, 41-42. 
Chickadee, long-tailed, 42-43. 
Chipping sparrow, western, 33. 
Chondestes grammacus strigatus, 31-33. 
Cliff swallow, 39-40. 
Colaptes cafer colearis, 9. 
Conclusion, 61-62. 
Cowbird, 15-16. 
Cyanocitta stelleri diademata, 14. 
Dendroica sestiva sestiva, 41. 
Desert horned lark, 10-11. 
song sparrow, 35-36. 
Distribution of weevil-eating birds, 3-4. 
Dolichonyx oryzivorus, 15. 
Domestic fowls as weevil enemies, 57-58. 
Dove, western mourning, 8-9. 
Empidonax trailli trailli, 10. 
Enemies of alfalfa weevil, birds as, list of, 
4-5. 
domestic fowls as, 57-58. 
other vertebrate, 58. 
English sparrow, 46-57, 62. 
Euphagus cyanocephalus, 23-27. 
Eutaenia sp., 58. 
Finch, house, 27-28. 
Flicker, red-shafted, 9. 
Flycatcher, Traill's, 10. 
Fowls, domestic, as weevil enemies, 57-58. 
Frog, leopard, 60-61. 
Garter snake, 58. 
Green-tailed towhee, 37. 
Grosbeak, black-headed, 37-38. 
Gull, California, 5-6. 
Horned lark, desert, 10-11. 
"toad," 58. 
House finch, 27-28. 
Icteria virens longicauda, 41-42. 
Icterus bullocki, 22-23. 
Importation and spread of alfalfa weevil, 
1-2. 
Introduction, 1. 
Jay, long-crested, 14. 
Woodhouse's, 14-15. 
Killdeer, 6-7. 
Kingbird, Arkansas, 9. 
Lacertilia, 58. 
Lark, desert horned, 10-11. 
sparrow, western, 31-33. 
Larus californicus, 5-6. 
Lazuli bunting, 38-39. 
Leopard frog, 60-61. 
Life history of alfalfa weevil, 2-3. 
Lincoln's sparrow, 36. 
Long-crested jay, 14. 
Long-tailed chat, 41-42. 
chickadee, 42-43. 
Lophortyx californica vallicola, 8. 
Macgillivray's warbler, 41. 
Magpie, 11-14. 
Meadowlark, western, 20—22. 
Melospiza lincolni lincolni, 36. 
melodia fallax, 35-36. 
Molothrus ater ater, 15-16. 
Mountain bluebird, 45-46. 
Mourning dove, western, 8-9. 
Oporornis tolmiei, 41. 
Oreoscoptes montanus, 42. 
Oreospiza chlorura, 37. 
Oriole, Bullock's, 22-23. 
Otocoris alpestris leucolaema, 10-11. 
Oxyechus vociferus, 6-7. 
Passer domesticus, 46-57. 
Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus, 30- 
31. 
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