. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . ury doneto melons by the flea-beetle (Sysh na doingata). Its congener, the pale-striped flea-beetle (Systena hlandar fig. 7) is alsoabundant on the farm and one or the other has beenfound harmful to corn, melons, and beans. Else-where they have attacked fruit trees and , however, they appeared to form thenatural beetle food of several ground-feeding spe-cies of birds and were sought for even when theywere very scarce. They were seen in the stomachsof 28 birds, including the savanna, the grasshop-per, the c
. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . ury doneto melons by the flea-beetle (Sysh na doingata). Its congener, the pale-striped flea-beetle (Systena hlandar fig. 7) is alsoabundant on the farm and one or the other has beenfound harmful to corn, melons, and beans. Else-where they have attacked fruit trees and , however, they appeared to form thenatural beetle food of several ground-feeding spe-cies of birds and were sought for even when theywere very scarce. They were seen in the stomachsof 28 birds, including the savanna, the grasshop-per, the chipping, the song, the field, and the white-throated sparrows, the crow, the crow blackbird,the bobolink, the meadowlark, the house wren, andthe Maryland yellow-throat. Systena blanda wasfound on ragweed in a held of ripe standingwheat, dune 1»,. L898. Eleven chipping sparrows that had been flyinginto the field weie shot. None had taken wheat and eight had fed onthe beetles, destroying in all 73. The smallest number found in asingle stomach was 5, the largest 7.—Pale-striped flea-beetle {Systena Wanda) all «■ r »h i 1 t c n d .■ li ; loaned by Division ofBntomolog [NSECT Fool). 81 Rose-chafer. During the last week of May, L896, the rose-chafei(tiu. 8) was present in such numbers that LOO Individuals were countedon one rosebush and three times thai number on an adjacent blossom-
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