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deal of damage not only to the buildings, but to fruit trees and bushes, to 

 the growing and shocked grains, and when they have access to granaries 

 they eat but little except the grains in store. Have seen but one habit they 

 have that could be set down as a credit: on my farm I have noticed them 

 feeding their young with the tent caterpillar. 



253315. Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes Higratorius. 



The only record of this bird that I have in North Dakota was furnished 

 by Mr. J. F. Rickbeil who was living near Cavalier, Pembina Co., N. Dak., in 

 1880-81. He tells me that in those years he saw a number of flocks of 50 to 

 100 in a flock. These pigeons came out of the timber and brush along the 

 Tongue River and fed off the shocks of wheat in latter part of August and 

 September, and that on several occasions he shot them. Mr. Rickbeil had 

 known and shot numbers of the Wild Pigeon in Southwest Canada in his 

 younger days, so that there can be no question as to the identity of the birds. 



254 373. Screech Owl. Megascops Asio. 



Have two records of this species. One killed and mounted by Alf East- 

 gate at Stump Lake and one seen and watched for quite a few minutes on 

 November 10th, 1916, in fruit trees on my lots in Cando. Have looked for 

 them for many years but above was the only time I have ever seen one in 

 North Dakota. 



255 475. American Magpie Pica pica hudsonica. 



Have not seen these myself but have records from Eastgate and C. H. 

 Canfield who has seen them in Turtle Mountains, also one mounted specimen 

 taken there, now in Citizens Bank of Bisbee, this County. 



