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Show Utah AcadeJIliJ' of Sciences, Arts and Letters 162 [Vol. XlV, A sle.cimen from Corinne, collected the same day, contained ill recognizable condition 110 ants, 1 wasp, 3 grasshoppers and 1 beetle. Five specimens Eastern Kingbird.-Tyranntts tyrannus (Linnaeus). were collected near Corinne, August 1, 1936, and one at Syracuse four days later. The stomachs contained 1 grasshopper, a Carolina locust; 1 damsel fly; 16 beetles, each stomach containing one or more; 2 lepidopterous larvae' 3 Diptera in 1 stomach; 1 Hemiptera; 140 Hymenoptera ' of which 128 were ants in 5 stomachs. Say .Phoebe.-Sayornis say us (Bonaparte). One phoebe, taken ill Skull Valley, south of Iosepa, contained fragments of 3 grasshoppers and 2 beetles. A second, collected near Nephi on August 7, 1936, held 4 beetles and 3 . . Hymenoptera. Western Wood Pewee.-Myiochanes richardsoni richardsoni (Swainson). Two specimens of this flycatcher were collected at Promontory, and 1 at Both In addition well on August 1, 1936, each stomach containing a grasshopper. there were 3 beetles; 2 flies; 1 hemipterous specimen; one stomach contained (i wheat seeds. An ex Desert Horned Lark.-Otocoris ctpertris leucolaema (Coues). amination was made of 49 stomachs, which revealed that this bird will at times feed rather extensively upon insects, even though numerically, the great The stomachs contained 4 grass est number of items contained were seeds. were hoppers in 1 stomach; 248' Homoptera in 7 stomachs, of which 235 in 6 tenellus Eutetiix (Baker) beet leafhopper, nymphs and 10 adults of the 12 stomachs; 4 Hemip in beetles 23 in 3 and another; treehoppers stomachs, 28 Hymenoptera in 12 tera, including 2 false chinch bugs, in 3 stomachs; from 14 stom 23 6 from Lepidoptera 17 ants stomachs; stomachs, including weed seeds in achs, all but one of which were caterpillars; 5 spiders; 1779 contained stomachs Several stomachs. 16 in seeds wheat 45 stomachs; 35 beet leafhoppers were all collected The six birds containing plant fragments. in the breeding area north of Kelton in early morning of September 28, 1935, One stomach contained 4 adult and 75 nymphal among Russian thistle plants. A second contained 48 E. tencllus, 5 weed seeds, and 1 grasshopper leg. and 8 seeds. A third 1 Geocoris nymph, adult E. bug 2 tenellus, nymphs and seeds. stomach contained 2 adult and 45 nymphal E. tenellus and 8 weed Stomachs Boddaert. American Barn Swallow.-Hiru.ndo erythroqaster 11 5 Coleoptera 8 in Odonata 20 stomachs; 1 contained cricket; of 19 specimens of which were in 17 stomachs, including 57 weevils in 11 stomachs, a number icnellus taken E. 1 3 in including stomachs, alfalfa weevils; 9 Homoptera 75 Hemiptera in 7 other leafhoppers; near Hooper, September 30, 1936, and of which 25 Lygaeidae 4 in stomachs, 11 stomachs, including 13 pentatomids 8 horseflies in in 9 including stomachs, 20 chinch Diptera false 3 were bugs; of which 143 were ants in 4 4 stomachs; 151 Hymenoptera in 9 stomachs, were present in most stomachs .. Numerous unidentified insect fragments stomachs examined. One inesque ): Cliff Swallow .-P etrochelidon albijrons albifrons (Raf Cole 12 eaten had recently specimen, collected near Newton, August 29, 1936, 5 being alfalfa weevils; 5 ants; and 1 fly. optera, of which 11 were weevils, One purple martin, Purple Martin.-Progne subis subis (Linnaeus ): containecl 6 beetles; collected at Tony Grove in Logan Canyon, July 14, 1935, 6 Hymenoptera; and 1 damsel fly. One specImen Clark Nutcracker.-Nucifmga columbiana (Wilson). grease among 1935, 11, taken in Skull Valley, south of Iosepa, September insect fragments. and beetle 1 long-horned wood, contained obsolctus (Say). The rock wren feeds Rock Wren.-Salpinctes obsoletus An examination of 48 stomachs commonly. upon the beet leafhopper quite . . |
