356 APPENDIX IV. 



1895. The American Crow. The Wilson Ornithological Chap- 

 ter of the Agassiz Association, Bulletin No. 5, March, 

 1895, pages 5-42. 



Notably feeding, nesting, roosting, flight, relative abundance. 



1895. Barrows, W. B., and Schwarz, E. A. The Common 

 Crow in the United States. United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy, 

 Bulletin :N'o. 6, 1895, pages 1-98. 



General habits of the crow, geographic distribution, migra- 

 tion, crow-roosts; animal food of the crow; methods of inves- 

 tigation, method of examining stomachs; relative percentages 

 of animal and vegetable food ; relation of the crow to mammals ; 

 relation of the crow to other birds; relation of the crow to rep- 

 tiles, fishes, and invertebrates; insect food of the crow; testimony 

 of correspondents on insects eaten by the crow: vegetable food 

 of the crow, — corn, wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat, mast, grass 

 and weed seeds, wild rice, fruit: protection of crops, — tarring 

 corn, use of poison, bounties; list of localities at which crows' 

 stomachs were collected. 



1895. Beal, F. E. L. Crow Blackbirds and their Food. United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Yearbook, 1894, pages 

 233-248. 



Discussion of the purple grackle and its two subspecies, the 

 bronzed and Florida grackles. The following subjects are 

 treated: Geographic range, observations regarding the diet of 

 the crow blackbird, examinations of stomach contents, various 

 articles of bird diet, grains and fruits as blackbird food, seeds 

 as bird food, food of the young, and summary. 



1895. Beal, F. E. L. Preliminary Report of the Food of Wood- 

 peckers. United States Department of Agriculture, Di- 

 vision of Ornithology and Mammalogy, Bulletin No. 7, 

 pages 1-33. Review in American Naturalist, vol. xxx., 

 page 496; Popular Science Monthly, vol. xlix., page 573. 



General remarks and table showing food percentages, followed 

 by short discussions of the range, habits, and food of the fol- 

 lowing species: downy, hairy, red-headed, red-bellied, and 

 pileatcd woodpeckeis, flicker, and yellow-bellied sapsucker. 



