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BEAVER COUNTY. 



WlLi,lAM M. BOYLE. New Brighton; 

 Have seen quail and other small birds caught by hawks. 



W. N. McNAIR, Beaver Falls: 



Chicken hawks, large owls, the fox, minks and weasels de- 

 stroy poultry, game and song birds. 



J. A. SNYDER. Beaver Falls: 

 I have seen the large chicken hawk catch and kill quail. 



A. H. CLARKE, New Brighton: 



Poultry, game and song birds are destroyed by minks, rats, 

 foxes, skunks, weasels, snakes and the common house cat. 



BLAIR COUNTY. 



W. F. TAPPAN, Altoona: 



Have seen blue hawk attack and kill pheasants; also have 

 known foxes to have committed the same deed; have found 

 their nests torn up, etc. 



WILLIAM VAN ALLMAN, East Sharpsburg: 



The skunk will hunt the eggs in the laying season of the 

 quail and wild turkeys, but they suffer in winter from the 

 fox and hawk. 



DR. A. L. SPAXGLE, Altoona: 



Have seen red-tailed hawks with grouse in their claws, spar- 

 row hawks with woodcocks, minks in a chicken coop. Butcher 

 bird impale a Field Sparrow on a thorn bush, wildcat with rab- 

 bit, and where fox had caught rabbit; also where skunk anri 

 mink had killed rabbit. 



FREDERICK JACKEL, Hollidaysburg: 

 Hawks, weasels and squirrels take eggs. 



EDWARD KOTTMANN, Altoona: 



Have seen the kingfisher on numeious occasions get troui : 

 al.so seen the Red-tailed Hawk capture poultry, quail ami 

 grouse; witnessed the grouse caught by blue hawk also. 



S. H. DEAN, Williamsburg: 



I have frequently seen hawks catch partridges, poultry him) 

 song birds. 



MATTHEW CALVIN, Hollidaysburg: 



Polecats, minks and weasels destroy our poultry, song anil 

 game birds. 



M. D. YOUNG, Hollidaysburg: 



The foxes in our county destroy much game, both by killing 

 the birds and driving them away while hatching 



