382 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



Contents. Remains of kernels of corn, forming about 70 per cent, of entire 

 stomach contents ; about 15 seeds of common sumach (Rhus) and 1 seed of 

 poison sumach (Rhus venenata); about 10 per cent, of bits of flesh and 

 ligament of some animal, probably carrion ; a large amount of clean sand 

 without pebbles ; no insect remains. 



4433. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 15, 1887 ; a. m; Willard E. Treat. 

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



' half full. 



Contents. Three unknown seeds, probably of apple, pear, or quince ; a small 

 amount of vegetable matter like pulp of fruit ; a single hog bristle and a 

 number of bits of meat, probably carrion ; a large amount of sand without 

 any gravel or pebbles ; no insect remains. 



4434. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; a. m. Willard E. Treat. 

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



half full. 



Contents. A few skins of berries or seeds in small bits, and a little other fine 

 vegetable debris ; a single hog bristle and bits of animal tissue, probably 

 carrion ; about 2 per cent, of insect remains, all of a single insect ; a large 

 amount of sand, and two or three small pebbles. 



4435. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Willard E. Treat. 

 Animal matter, 5 per cent; vegetable, 3 ; gravel, etc., 92. Stomach almost 



empty. 



Contents. One or two hog bristles and a few shreds of animal membrane, 

 probably carrion ; a few bits of hulls of corn or other grain ; a little sand 

 and many small fragments of some hard black mineral ; no insect remains. 



4436. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Willard E. Treat. 

 Animal matter, 35 per cent.; vegetable, 60 ; gravel, etc., 5. Stomach about half 



full. 



Contents. About 100 seeds of poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendron), and 7 seeds of 

 common sumach (Rhus); about 35 per cent, of shreds and bits of animal 

 membrane, probably carrion ; a little sand and five or six small pebbles ; 

 no insects. 



4437. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Willard E. Treat. 

 Animal matter, 40 per cent.; vegetable, 10; gravel, etc., 50. Stomach almost 



empty. 



Contents. Two seeds of harmless sumach (Rhus) and a few hulls and skins 

 of other seeds or grain ; one hog bristle and a few shreds and small masses 

 of muscle and tendon, probably carrion ; sand without pebbles ; no in 

 sects. 



4438. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Williard E. Treat. 

 Animal matter, 14 per cent.; vegetable, 85; gravel, etc., 1. Stomach well 



filled. 



Contents. Remains of about 20 kernels of corn, 9 or 10 of them nearly entire ; 

 about 80 seeds of harmless sumach (Rhus) ; one or two hog bristles, and 

 many shreds and bits of meat, probably carrion ; a very little sand ; no in- 

 sects. , 



4450. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 31, 1887 ; 10 a. m. Willard E. Treat. 

 Animal matter, 5 percent. ; vegetable, 48 ; gravel, etc., 47. Stomach well filled. 

 Contents. Remains of kernels of corn, mostly hulls; one or two small shreds 



of meat (carrion ?) ; a dozen or more caddis-fly cases and some of the legs 

 of the larvae [Tyler Townsend] ; a large amount of sand and gravel. 



4451. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 31, 1887 ; 10 a. m. Williard E. Treat. 

 Animal matter, 50 per cent. ; vegetable, 50 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than 



half full. 



Contents. Scraps and shreds of meat and animal membrane (carrion ?) ; about 

 120 seeds of harmless sumach (Rhus), and other remains of the berries; 

 no gravel or sand ; no insects. 



