Show EASTERN KINGBIRD The according to Seal's is essentially a lover of the It breeds in the states east of the Rocky and less commonly in the Great Basin and on the Pacific Its antipathy for hawks and crows is well and for this reason a family of kingbirds is a desirable adjunct to a poultry On one occasion this ornithologist observed that a which had attacked a brood of young tur- were and the remaining six were too badly broken to be identified as to In the stomachs- were found nineteen robber flies insects that prey upon other especially upon The nineteen robber flies found in the stomachs may be considered more than an equivalent for the four worker honeybees already A few caterpillars are most-ly belonging to the group commonly known as all the species of which are About 10 per cent of the food consists of small native comprising some twenty common species of the roadsides and such as dogwood and wild The bird is not reported as eating cultivated fruit to an injurious and it is very doubtful if this is ever the Three points seems to be clearly established in regard to the food of the kingbird that about 90 per cent consists of mostly injurious that the alleged habit of prey mountains have been but little We certainly have the following and no doubt other as the silver spots are The new Mexican silver spot spreads from to and is pale with rather narrow black the inner two-thirds of lined wings is cinnamon red The zerene is with heavy black markings and pinkish with the hind wings purplish and the spots not Behr's is brighter colored than the female with four wings bright red at the both wings silvered The halcyone is red above with distinct black bars and the inner two-thirds of the rear wings below deep all the spots well expanse to The is dull tawny very brown at base of the black marks not the marginal spots hind wings with broad buff belt below and small silver expanse to The crown is yellowish the dark markings not heavy but fore wings buff below and somewhat orange at spots silvered near hind wings mottled with with large silvered spots to Snyder's fritillary is light tawny above and grayish green below with two large silver spots near the tips and five on the 3 to The Nevada is pale heavily bordered with fore wings pale buff below with well silvered hind wings greenish with narrow belt and well silvered 3 to Mead's silver spot is similar to the Nevada but Edward's fritillary may be distinguished from Nevada by the brighter color of the upper the heavier black and the olive-brown of the hind wings The liliana is above with slight black fore wings yellowish buff with a brown patch and two or three silver spots near the tip and 5 on the edge hind wings spots well belt narrow and yellowish to The cliff dweller is deep reddish brown with heavy black marks fore wings buffy and red spots hind wings mottled with spots barely if at all edge-belt buff 2 to is bright yellow edged by two fine fore wings pale buff bathed with cinnamon brown at base and along spots at tips and on margins well hind wings buff below mottled with brown or pale olive green belt broad and clear buff spots well to 2 The is similar without silvery scales on fore wings and without There are many other western silver spots not yet The Smaller A genus of smaller size called gives us the The silver border is- black borders spots below are small and well to Hubner's fritillary is bright with blackish scales on the inner margin of the hind the border narrower than in the silver hind wings with two bright yellow spots at base a band of yellow spots spots below not a beautiful species The Helena is brown at base of fore wings and margin of hind black markings hind wings with small yellow dots on The is pale above and below mottled with black above and purple and yellow No man lives without jostling and being In all ways he has to elbow his way through the giving and receiving His life is a in so far as it has an entity at Be but be persistent in the |