. 100 



GEORGE R. WRIGHT, Wllkes-Barre: 



Have seen I'nxes catihiiif? Runfcl Grouse and rabbits; liawks 

 catching wlng-ed groUse and quail; skunks catching- grouse and 

 weasels rabbits. 



M. B. WESTCOTT, Register: 



The owl, fox, mink and weasel destroy rabbits, pheasant 

 and poultry, 



\Y. D. FRITZ, Huntingdon Mills: 



I have tracked weasels when they killed rabbits and have 

 known minks to kill young turkeys. 



F. B. PARK, Fairmount Springs: 



I find frequently the carcasses of rabbits killed by weasels; 

 have often found where rabbits, pheasants and quail had been 

 killed by foxes, and where nests had been robbed by skunks. 



LYCOMING COUNTY. 



R. H. GRIER, Oriole: 



Chicken hawks, skunks and foxes destroying game and poul- 

 try. 



GEORGE D. POST, Williamsport: 



Foxes and skunks are quite destructive to grouse during 

 nesting time. 



C. W. YOUNGMAN, Williamsport: 



On Little Pine creek in 1895 was a section teeming with 

 grouse; it burned early in the spring of 18% and in two days 

 time was burned over, and hardly a bird was seen and they 

 were old cocks. 



AUGUST KOCH, Williamsport: 



Grouse, killed by foxes; a skunk and also by red-tailed 

 hawks; whole coveys of quail, in winter, by fox; nestings of 

 birds taken by sharp-shinned hawks, crows, crane and black 

 bird. 



G. W. CLARK, Williamsport: 



Foxes, weasels, skunks, hawks, owls and crows destroying 

 poultry, game, etc. 



C. J. DEWALT. Moreland: 



1 have had, as well as my neighbors, a great deal oi poultry 

 killed by foxes, minks, weasels, hawks and owls; have had 

 poultry killed by skunks: have seen where rabbits and pheas- 

 ants have been destroyed by fox-^s and minks and weasels 

 by tracking them. 



HENRY CODER, Williamsport: 

 Onoe saw a horned owl eating a pheasant 



C. W. YOUNGMAN, Williamsport: 



Have seen grouse picked to pieces by owls and torn to pieces 

 by foxes. 



