. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 56 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS the eel-grass washed up on the beaches. Dr. Sylvester D. Judd examined the stomach contents of 119 birds of this species and found the animal food ratio to be 46 per cent and the vegetal matter 54 per cent. The animal food was almost wholly insects and the vegetal food mostly seeds of weeds and grasses and a few blueberries. No grain was found.^ Mr. Wendell P. Smith, of Wells River, Vermont, reports that he saw one eating potato beetles. Economic Status. Dr. Judd says that judging from his examinatio
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 56 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS the eel-grass washed up on the beaches. Dr. Sylvester D. Judd examined the stomach contents of 119 birds of this species and found the animal food ratio to be 46 per cent and the vegetal matter 54 per cent. The animal food was almost wholly insects and the vegetal food mostly seeds of weeds and grasses and a few blueberries. No grain was found.^ Mr. Wendell P. Smith, of Wells River, Vermont, reports that he saw one eating potato beetles. Economic Status. Dr. Judd says that judging from his examination of its food habits, the Savannah Sparrow is an exceedingly valuable bird. Mr. Arthur T. Wayne says that the species is sometimes destructive to sprouting rice in South Carolina.^ Ammodramus savannarum australis Maynard. Grasshopper Sparrow. Other name: yellow-winged sparrow. Plate 68. Description. — Bill stouter than that of Savannah Sparrow, wing and tail shorter, wing with inner secondaries and longest tertials extending to near tip; tail double rounded, middle feathers shorter than the next, outer feathers but little shorter than the middle ones, feathers rather pointed; feet rather large and strong. Adults in breeding 'plumage (sexes alike): Above variegated, spotted and streaked with black or blackish, gray, buffy and rusty or chestnut- brown ; top of head streaked finely with black, with a distinct middle stripe of buff or brownish-yellow; hind neck grayish, streaked or spotted chestnut; sides of head buffy, inconspicuously and sparsely marked dusky, a yellowish spot or stripe extending from bill over eye and a very narrow dark line behind eye, two very narrow obsolete stripes outlining jaw, sometimes ab- sent; lesser wing-coverts greenish-yellow, tips paler, basal parts blackish; rest of wing-feathers dusky cen- trally with pale edges and tips, these markings par- ticularly prominent on tertials, which with greater coverts are tipped still paler or whitish; edge of w
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