Beginners' zoology . Fig. 324. — JaCANA. (Mexico, Southwest Texas, and Florida.)Questions: What appears to be the use of such long toes? What peculiarity of wing? hcadf their food. Thirty-eight per cent was ragweed, 2 per cent ticktrefoil, partridge pea, and locust, seeds, and 23 per cent seeds of About 14 per cent of the quails food for miscellaneous weeds. BIRDS 179 the year consists of animal matter (insects and their allies).Prominent among these are the Colorado potato beetle, thestriped squash beetle, the cottonboll-weevil, grasshoppers. As aweed destroyer the quail has few, if any, supe
Beginners' zoology . Fig. 324. — JaCANA. (Mexico, Southwest Texas, and Florida.)Questions: What appears to be the use of such long toes? What peculiarity of wing? hcadf their food. Thirty-eight per cent was ragweed, 2 per cent ticktrefoil, partridge pea, and locust, seeds, and 23 per cent seeds of About 14 per cent of the quails food for miscellaneous weeds. BIRDS 179 the year consists of animal matter (insects and their allies).Prominent among these are the Colorado potato beetle, thestriped squash beetle, the cottonboll-weevil, grasshoppers. As aweed destroyer the quail has few, if any, superiors. Moreover,its habits are such that it is almost constantly on the ground,where it is brought in close contact with both weed seeds andground-living insects. It is a good ranger, and, if undisturbed, willpatrol every day all the fields in its vicinity as it searches for food. • ,r. >? s^m Mh^. Fig. 325. —Nightingale, x \. Fig. 326. — Skylark, x j. Two celebrated European songsters. Doves.—The food of the do\e consists of seeds of weeds,together with some grain. The examination of the contents of237 stomachs showS that over 99 per cent of the food consistswholly of vegetable matter. Cuckoos. — An examination of the stomachs of 46 black-billedcuckoos, taken during the summer months, shovved the remainsof 906 caterpillars, 44 beetles, 96 grasshoppers, 100 sawflies, 30stink bugs, and 15 spiders. Of the yellow-billed cuCkoos, orrain-crow, 109 stomachs collected from May to October, in-clusive, were examined. The contents consisted of 1,865 cater-pillars, 93 beetles, 242 grasshoppers, 37 sawflies, 69 bugs, d flies,and 86 spiders. i8o BEGINNERS ZOOLOGY
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