. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 92 THE WINTER FOOD OF THE CHICKADEE a moth and pupa, 12 per cent. ; the winter cases of a tineid, 3 per cent. ; sumach berries 7, and undetermined material, 26 per cent. The third specimen was remarkable for the number of insect eggs which it had eaten. There were 121 good-sized eggs of aphides and 147 small eggs of aphides, the two together making 52 per cent, of the total food; in addition there were 20 reduviid eggs, making 9 per cent. ; 15 round black and white eggs with a recticulate surface, 9 per cent. ; and 15 oval, pointed, white eggs, making
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 92 THE WINTER FOOD OF THE CHICKADEE a moth and pupa, 12 per cent. ; the winter cases of a tineid, 3 per cent. ; sumach berries 7, and undetermined material, 26 per cent. The third specimen was remarkable for the number of insect eggs which it had eaten. There were 121 good-sized eggs of aphides and 147 small eggs of aphides, the two together making 52 per cent, of the total food; in addition there were 20 reduviid eggs, making 9 per cent. ; 15 round black and white eggs with a recticulate surface, 9 per cent. ; and 15 oval, pointed, white eggs, making 5 per cent. Spiders and their cases made 6 per cent. ; a lepidopterous larva, 3 per cent. ; a beetle larva, 4 percent. ; a lepidopter- ^^^ ^.^fcg^h ous and hymenopterous cocoon, i per cent, each ; five small larvae, proba- bly dipterous, 5 per cent. ; bud scales, I per cent., and undetermined mate- rial, 4 per cent. -^^ xY-'' The next specimens studied were three birds taken at i p. m. March Fig. 10.—Nightflying moth {Sco^elo- 4th, in small trees in a pasture. They soma). Eaten by chickadees ^^'^^^ l^een feeding leisurely in trees or shrubs of birch, apple, alder, cedar, and barberry. Two of these had eaten many plant-lice eggs, and many other insects, while a third had eaten a variety of insects. A chickadee taken about 2 p. m. March 4th in a small lot of pine in a pasture contained the following : Pupa of a lepidopterous insect, 11 per cent. ; a lepidopterous larva, 16 per cent. ; a spider, 10 per cent. ; small hymenopterous cocoons, 24 per cent, ; bud scales, 6 per cent. ; sumach fruits, 8 per cent., and 25 per cent, was undetermined. About an hour later another bird was shot in a growth of hemlocks. " The circumstances,'' according to Mr. Fiske's notes, " were quite pecu- liar, the bird having flown to the ground and being in the act of picking at a piece of dead bark which had fallen from a tree. It was killed instantly, and when picked up had scarcely moved, e
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