List of Birds Examined. 



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Archibald (4) states that this bird " eats a considerable 

 quantity of corn, both in the fields and in farmyards, but it also 

 destroys many insects, which form the chief food of the young, as 

 well as the seeds of such plants as plantain, dock, wild vetch, 

 chickweed, thistle, and knotgrass. Various green leaves, black- 

 berries, and other wild fruit, are also included in its bill of fare." 



Newstead (92) examined only four specimens. Florence (47) 

 summarises the stomach contents of twenty-one specimens as fol- 

 lows : " 20 contained corn; 1, carpels of grass; 1, insect remains." 

 It is important to point out that nineteen of these specimens were 

 examined in January, 1910, one in March, and one in July. 



I have post-mortem records of thirty adult and eight nestling 

 birds, the former, as in all other cases, are fairly well spread over 

 the twelve months of the year. 



Post-mortem Records. 



