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The following statement from Mr. John M. Richardson, of Daingerfield, Tex., is 

 interesting in this connection from its novelty. Mr. Richardson writes : 



The crow is known to catch young terrapins, and there is reason to believe that it destroys 

 other small reptiles. I remember a rock-crowned hill on the east bank of the Wateree, between 

 Manchester and Statesburgh, in Sumpter county, Ga., that was almost covered with remains of 

 small terrapins and land tortoises carried there, killed, and devoured by crows. 



RESULTS IN DETAIL OP THE EXAMINATION OF STOMACHS OF THE COMMON 

 CROW (Corvus americanus}. 



[NOTE. The following- records of dissection are from examinations of stomachs preserved in 

 alcohol and forwarded to the Department of Agriculture by the collectors whose names accom- 

 pany the records in the list below. Unless otherwise stated the determinations of the various 

 items of stomach contents have been made entirely by members of the division, the writer being 

 responsible for the larger part. The percentages of the food elements in each case are to be re- 

 garded simply as approximate ; they are merely careful estimates, no exact measurement being 

 practicable. As elsewhere stated, the remains of insects were referred to the entomologist of 

 the department, for critical study, and a summary of his preliminary report has been given on 

 a previous pa fe -e.] 



2648. Male. Schraalenburgh, N. J. January 2, 1886 ; 9.30 a. m. F. J. Dixon. 

 Animal matter. per cent; vegetable, 90 ; gravel, etc., 6 ; indeterminate, 4. 



Stomach less than half full. 



Contents. Fragments of corn, acorns, etc.; 3 bits of insect legs ; fine mud- 

 like matter not determined ; a little sand and gravel. 



2649. Female. Schraalenburgh, N. J. January 2, 1886 ; 10.30 a. m. F. J. Dixon. 

 Animal matter, 7 per cent. ; vegetable, 90 ; gravel, etc., 3. Stomach well filled. 

 Contents. Remains of corn, pumpkin and cucumber seeds and perhaps other 



seeds ; remains of muscular fiber, probably from a mussel or clam as some 

 of it was attached to a piece of a shell, apparently that of bivalve ; a few 

 bits of shell and a little sand ; no remains of insects. 



7012. Chester county, Pa. January 12, 1887. Dr. B. H. Warren. 



Animal matter, 25 per cent.; vegetable, 50 ; gravel, etc., 25. Stomach about 

 two-thirds full. 



Contents. A few bits of corn (kernels), and a large amount of hulls .of corn 

 or other grain, with some other vegetable fiber ; 4 seeds of poison ivy 

 (Rhus tozicodendron'); 2 vertebrae of small bird* and several fragments of 

 bone of small fisti* ; 3 or 4 small beetles and a large quantity of other in- 

 sect remains and one spider ; a good supply of coarse gravel. 



7013. Chester county, Pa. January 15, 1887. Dr. B. H. Warren. 



Animal matter, 1 per cent; vegetable, 90; gravel, etc., 9. Stomach about 

 three-fourths full. 



Contents. One hundred and fifty-three seeds of poison ivy (Rhus toxicoden- 

 dron), about 125 seeds of sumach (Rhus glabra} ; egg-case of a spider ; in- 

 sect remains ; a fair amount of sand and gravel ; a quantity of finely pul- 

 verized vegetable matter mixed with fine sand. 

 4432. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 15, 1887 ; a. m. Willard E. Treat. 



Animal matter, 10 per cent; vegetable, 75; gravel, etc., 15. Stomach well 

 filled. 



These bones* were identified by K. A. Lucas. 



