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2240. Male. Washington, D. C. September 7, 1886 ; 11 a. m. F. A. Lucas. 



Animal matter, 10 per cent; vegetable, 80; gravel, etc., 10. Stomach about 



half full. 



Contents. Grape seeds and skins, with a little pulp and much vegetable fiber; 

 other vegetable material not identifiable ; 7 seeds of poison ivy ; small 

 amount of gravel ; a few insect remains. 



The grape seeds are undoubtedly those of cultivated grapes, as this bird 

 and No. 2239 were shot near a vineyard, the owner of which complained of 

 the great damage done by the crows. 

 2698. Alfred Centre, N. Y. September 7, 1886. F. S. Place. 



Animal matter, 95 per cent.; vegetable, 5; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than 



half full. 



Contents. One stone of wild cherry and a very little fine vegetable matter, 

 probably from the fruit of the same ; several grasshoppers and perhaps 

 . other insects ; no gravel. 

 2242. Male. Shelter Island, New York. September 11, 1886 ; a. m. W. W. Worth- 



ington. 



Animal matter, 10 per cent., vegetable, 85 ; gravel, etc., 5. Stomach well filled. 

 Contents. About 50 seeds of bay-berry or wax- berry ( Myrica cerifera) ; hulls 

 of corn or some other grain, with a few small bits of the grain ; a little 

 fine vegetable material, not identified ; remains of the legs of a small 

 crustacean ; 4 small snail shells (marine); 2 vertebrae of small fish ; a few 

 fragments of insects ; a little sand. 



4587. Male. Shelter Island, New York. October 1, 1886; a. m. W. W. Worth- 



ington. 

 Animal matter, 25 per cent.; vegetable, 60 ; gravel, etc., 15. Stomach about 



half full. 

 Contents. Fragments of acorns or chestnuts, and, perhaps of some other seeds, 



but these mainly ; remains of a crayfish ; 4 or 5 minute bits of an insect ; 



considerable sand, but no pebbles. 



4588. Male. Shelter Island, New York. October 1, 1886; a. m. W. W. Worth- 



ington. 



Animal matter, per cent.; vegetable, 100; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than 

 half full. 



Contents. Remains of a dozen or more kernels of corn ; about 50 stones of 



bay-berry ( Myrica cerifera); a single stone of some wild Prunus, probably 



the beech plum (P. maritima); 3 small claw tips of a crab or crayfish, 



probably taken as gravel (?); no insects. 



2269. Female, adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. October 2, 1886 ; 3 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 



Animal matter, 2 per cent; vegetable, 95 ; gravel, etc., 3. Stomach full. 



Contents. Nineteen seeds of flowering dogwood (Cornus florida); 17 seeds of 

 bay-berry (Myrica cerifera}', bits of shell of chestnuts and large amount 

 of chestnut " meat ; " 8 vertebrae and other small bones of a small fish ; 

 minute bits of the shell of insects ; little sand and gravel. 

 1439. Essex Junction, Vt October 3, 1885 ; 10 a. m. Charles A. Davis. 



Animal matter, 1 per cent.; vegetable, 10; gravel, etc., 89. Stomach nearly 

 empty. 



Con tents. Skin and pulp of a single fruit, perhaps a grape, but no seeds ; large 

 quantity of sand and gravel ; minute fragments of the hard parts of in- 

 sects. 

 1444. Winfield N. Y. October 4, 1885 ; a. m. O. P. Hitchings. 



Animal matter, 5 per cent; vegetable, 5 ; gravel, etc., 85 ; indeterminate, 5. 



Contents. A few bits of oats and perhaps other grain ; a mixture of finely 

 pulverized vegetable and mineral matter, forming a fine black mud ; a 

 laige amount of sand and pebbles ; a lew fragments of insects. 



