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ONLY FIVE WERE DETRIMENTAL SPECIES 



III a period tif two days the writer obtaiued from uiie 

 ollicial fifty-two hawks and owls which had been 

 killed by two hunters in a week's time on the Brandy 

 wine meadows near the borough of West Chester, Pa. 

 In this lot were three Cooper's Hawks, one Sharj)- 

 shinned Hawk and a Great Horned Owl, or a total of 

 five birds, which subsist largely on poultry, small wild 

 birds and game. 'Piie remaining forty-seven birds were 

 all of the benetiiial group, namely: Screech. Short- 

 eared, and Long-eaied Owls, Red-tailed, Red-shonl 

 dered, Sjiarrow and Hough-legged Hawks. 



.MAILED ON BARNS 



During the winter of 18'J5 and '96 in traveling over 

 the State attending Farmer's Institutes, a record was 

 made of the birds of prey and the remains of other 

 animals to be seen nailed on barns and other out 

 buildings and here it is: 



BENEFICIAL. 



^ks. 



Sparrow, 8. 

 Ked-lailed, 21. 

 Ked-shouldered, ti 

 Kough-legged, :{. 



Owls. 



Short-eared, !t. 

 Long-eared, 7. 

 Barn, 2. 

 Screech, 0. 

 Saw whet, I. 



DETRIMENTAL. 



Hawks. 



(Jooper's, 2. 

 Sharp-shinned, 

 tioshawk, 2. 

 Pigeon, 1. 



Owls. 

 • ireat-Horned, ;" 

 Barred, 2. 

 Snowv, 1. 



