6 
THE BOBWHITE 
The bobwhite has 
been discovered to 
eat 135 different 
kinds of insects, many 
of them the most 
injurious that we 
have; the potato bee¬ 
tle, which few other 
birds eat, cucumber 
beetle, cut worms, 
army worm, wire 
worms, chinch bugs, 
cotton boll worm, 
and cotton boll wee¬ 
vil. Mrs. Nice’s ob¬ 
servations have added a 
fewspeciallysignificant 
species to the Govern¬ 
ment lists, among them 
mosquitoes, typhoid 
and stable flies (larvae, 
pupae, and adults), 
squash bugs, plant lice 
of many species, 
moths, cabbage butter¬ 
fly, peach-tree borer, codling moth, carpet-beetle, clothes 
moths, and the Hessian fly. 
These studies, which constitute the most careful and com¬ 
plete investigation ever made of the food of any bird, have 
enabled Mrs. Nice to estimate that a bobwhite hen will 
eat an average of 75> 0 °c> insects and 5,000,000 weed-seeds 
Chums 
