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ONLY FIVE WERE DETRIMENTAL SPECIES. 



In a period of two dnys the writer obtained from uni- 

 otticlal 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. 

 Tn tliis lot were three Cooper's Hawks, ontr Sharp- 

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

 five birds, which subsist largely on poultry, small wild 

 birds and game. The i-eniaining forty-seven birds were 

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

 eared, and Long-eared Owls, Red-tailed, Red-shoul 

 dered, Sparrow and Rongh-legged Hawks. 



NAILED ON BARNS. 



During the winter of 1SJ)5 and '96 in traveling ovei 

 the State attending Farmer's Institutes, a record was 

 made of the birds of pie^ and the remains of other 

 animals to be seen nailed on barns and other out 

 buildings and hei-e it is: 



BENEFICIAL. 



Hawks. 



Sparrow, H. 

 Red-tailed, 21. 

 Red-shouldered, (» 

 Rough-legged, ;>. 



Owls. 



Short-eared, !). 

 Long-eared, 7. 

 Barn. 2. 

 Screech, fi. 

 Saw whet. 1. 



DETRIMENTAL. 



Hawks. 



(,'ooper's, 2. 

 Sharp-shinned, 9. 

 (jroshawk, 2. 

 Pigeon, ]. 



Owls. 



Great-Horned, ."i. 

 Barred. 2. 

 Suowv, 1. 



