AUTUMN FOOD OF THE MYRTLE WARBLER 
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Eight bayberry fruits formed 88 per cent, of the food of a specimen taken 
at i : 3° p. m., October to, the remaining 12 per cent, consisting of hymen- 
opterous flies (.02), beetles (.03), feathers (.01), undetermined insects (.03), 
and undetermined material (.03). 
On October 19, 1899, four specimens were taken at 8 a. m., in a pasture 
field where both food and birds were abundant. The stomach contents 
were as follows : 
No. 1. 
Per cent. 
2 bayberry seeds 26 
21 aphides {Melanoxant/ms) '. 41 
2 flies {Dipt era) 15 
1 ichneumon fly (?) 6 
Insects undetermined 5 
Material undetermined 7 
100 
No. 2. 
Per cent. 
7 bayberry seeds 63 
1 leaf-hopper 3 
1 aphid 2 
1 crane fly ( Tipulidae ) 18 
1 hymenopterous fly {Aphidius) 1 
Insect eggs ( Hemiptera ?) 1 
Feathers 1 
Material undetermined 9 
100 
No. 3. 
Per cent. 
9 bayberry seeds 90 
Hymenopterous fly {Aphidius ?) 1 
Insects undetermined 3 
Material undetermined 6 
100 
No. 4. 
Per cent. 
8 bayberry seeds 80 
Insects undetermined 14 
Material undetermined 6 
100 
Of two specimens taken at 9:30 a. m., October 23, in a pasture having 
many bayberry bushes, the first contained only the remains of food from 
the day before, one bayberry seed, 90 per cent., and fragments of insects, 10 
per cent. The second, also, had eaten little that morning, 2 bayberry seeds 
