Table VIII. 



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Ratio oe Each Species in Each Crop to Aix 

 Birds in that Crop* 



*Read from above downwards. 



of that species found in that crop to the total number of all birds 

 found in the same crop. 



From Table VIII. it will be seen that the principal corn-Held spe- 

 cies at the times and places of this trip was the English sparrow, to 

 which more than half the birds seen in corn fields belong, and that 

 the mourning-dove and the meadow-lark were the species next in 

 abundance there — 6 per cent, and 5 per cent, respectively. In stubble 

 fields the meadow-lark was the most abundant species, making about 

 a fifth of all the birds seen in such fields. The next in order of 

 abundance were the mourning-dove, the English sparrow, the horned 

 lark, and the crow-blackbird, present in ratios ranging from 9 per 

 cent, to 5 per cent. The meadow-lark was also much the most abun- 

 dant bird on fields of young wheat, where it made 45 j^er cent, of all 

 the birds seen; and the horned lark and the goldfinch were next to 

 this in number, one third and one fifth as great respectively. The 

 principal pasture species were the English sparrow (24 per cent.) and 

 the crow-blackbird (20 per cent.), with the crow, the cowbird, the 

 horned lark, and the meadow-lark following in numbers ranging from 

 a third to about a fifth the number of the sparrows. In meadows, 

 on the other hand, the meadow-lark and the cowbird were in the lead, 

 each 18 per cent, of all the meadow birds identified, and the English 

 sparrow and the mourning-dove were about half as numerous. On 

 fall plozving more than half the birds were horned larks, and the only 

 other abundant species were the crow (18 per cent.) and the English 



