RECORDS VOLUME XII, FEB. 1920. AT 
tines. Contents of proventriculus and gizzard: ten larvae 
of boring beetles, from one-half tothree-fourths of an inch 
in length respectively. 
There was no grit, for the Downy Woodpecker has a 
gizzard with rather soft walls and the lining membrane 
is not hard nor coarsely rugose as, for example, in the 
sparrows. most of which also have very muscular gizzards, 
see Figs. 2 and 3. and I have never found any abrasive 
material in the gizzard of this woodpecker, excepting in 
one specimen, a oj‘ taken June 2, 1868. in Newton. Mass.. 
when [ found a little grit, but asthe bird sometimes feeds 
on the ground, this may have been swallowed accidental- 
ly. The only other casein which J have recorded finding 
