Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United StatesBeal, F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles)
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Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States
Beal, F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles)
Birds; Thrushes -- Food
Hemiptera (bugs), a small but rather constant element of the food,
were found in the stomachs collected every month, and in July reach
11.11 per cent. They were of the families of stinkbugs (Pentatomidæ),
shield bugs (Scutelleridæ), tree hoppers (Membracidæ), leaf hoppers
(Jassidæ), and cicadas. Some scales were found in one stomach. The
total for the season is 3.76 per cent. A few insects not included in
any of the foregoing categories make up 0.48 per cent of the food.
Spiders, with a few millipeds, amount to 2.22 per cent, the lowest
figure for this item of any bird of the genus _Hylocichla_. Snails,
sowbugs, angleworms, etc. (0.32 per cent), complete the animal food.
Following is a list of insects identified and the number of stomachs
in which found:
HYMENOPTERA.
_Camponotus pennsylvanicus_ 1
_Tiphia inornata_ 1
COLEOPTERA.
_Cychrus nitidicollis_ 1
_Cychrus stenostomus_ 1
_Notiophilus æneus_ 1
_Pterostichus sayi_ 1
_Pterotichus lustrans_ 1
_Amara interstitialis_ 1
_Triæna longula_ 1
_Agonoderus pallipes_ 1
_Silpha ramosa_ 1
_Staphylinus cinnamopterus_ 1
_Tachyporus californicus_ 1
_Chilocorus orbus_ 1
_Scymnus_ sp 1
_Hister americanus_ 1
_Ips quadriguttatus_ 4
_Cytilus sericeus_ 1
_Agriotes stabilis_ 1
_Podabrus flavicollis_ 2
_Podabrus modestus_ 2
_Silis lutea_ 1
_Telephorus carolinus_ 1
_Telephorus bilineatus_ 5
_Telephorus divisus_ 2
_Onthophagus hecate_ 1
_Onthophagus striatulus_ 1
_Onthophagus tuberculifrons_ 2
_Onthophagus_ sp 4
_Atænius abditus_ 1
_Aphodius hamatus_ 1
_Aphodius fimetarius_ 6
_Aphodius inquinatus_ 7
_Aphodius_ sp 6
_Geotrupes_ sp 1
_Dichelonycha elongata_ 2
_Lachnosterna hirticula_ 1
_Lachnosterna_ sp 12
_Anomala undulata_ 1
_Anomala_ sp 1
_Euphoria fulgida_ 1
_Donacia emarginata_ 1
_Hæmonia nigricornis_ 1
_Syneta pallida_ 1
_Leptinotarsa decemlineata_ 1
_Gastroidea_ sp 1
_Galerucella decora_ 1
_Diabrotica soror_ 1
_Diabrotica_ sp 1
_Gonioctena pallida_ 1
_Luperodes bivittatus_ 1
_Opatrinus notus_ 1
_Blapstinus metallicus_ 1
_Blapstinus mæstus_ 1
_Blapstinus_ sp 1
_Otiorhynchus ovatus_ 1
_Thinoxenus_ sp 1
_Cercopeus chrysorrhæus_ 1
_Barypithes pellucidus_ 1
_Sitones flavescens_ 1
_Sitones_ sp 1
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