RED-TAILS ARE GOOD MOUSERS. 



Tn consequence of limited space it is irapracticablc 

 to irive in detail the results of dissections which T have 

 made of this species, but would state briefly that my 

 examinations of one hundred and seventy-three Red- 

 (nils captured in Pennsylvania, chiefly in Chester 

 county, revealed, in one hundred and t\vnty-('i,ffht. 

 principally field-mice {Arvicolce) and other small quad 

 rupeds. also some few small birds; in nine of these onf^ 

 hundred and twenty-eight hawks, small birds were 

 present in addition to the quadrupeds. Fourteen had 

 fed on chickens: six, small birds— meadow larks and 

 sparrows; six. rabbits; three, qnail; tliree, red squir 

 rels; three, mice and in.^ects; three, snakes; two, re- 

 mains of skunk: iwo, <arrion: one, ham skin; one. 



meat, probably 1 f. I have repeatedly found three 



and four mice in ili,. viscera of one bird, oftentimes 

 five, and in a feu iiisi;iiiees as manv ;is .seven of thes<' 

 destructive liitie redents were (ihi.iined freiii the cror) 

 and .stomach nf cme li.iw U, 



