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sixteen, coutairied poultrv (chickeus oi ducks), game 

 birds (quail or wild ducks) and small wild birds of 

 which the following species were identified: 



Meadow Lark, Gray-cheeked Thrush, 



Warbler, Catbird, 



Robin, Mourning Dove. 

 Crissal Tlirashtr, 



The only raainmal eaten as shown by these records 

 were two mice which were taken from the sto-niach of 

 one of these hawks killed at Elmira. N. Y., in I)e 

 cember, 18S7. Another of this series captured at 

 Portland. Conn., in April, 1880, had the remains of a 

 tame duck and some beetles in its stomach; ''small 

 bird's" remains, wliich could not be identified, with 

 ''dra.i;on flies." were discovered in another hawk taken 

 Octobei- 1, 1884, in Brookhaven, X. Y. The fo-ur re- 

 mainin.c: stomnchs of tlie twenty lasl referred to were 

 (mi])ty. 



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