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Contents. Remains of acorns, chestnuts, and perhaps other seeds ; a single 

 grape seed, and some hulls of corn or other grain, with much fine vege- 

 table matter like saw-dust ; a considerable amount of sand and gravel ; 

 remains (fine) of many insects. 

 1709. Male. Calhoun, Ga. November 28, 1885. R. Windsor Smith. 



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



Contents. Twenty-four seeds of poison ivy ; a small snake, 8 inches or more 

 in length; a small snail (Helix")} 1 very large spider; remains of many 

 insects, constituting Almost 40 per cent of entire stomach contents ; 4 or 5 

 pebbles of the size of kernels of corn, and some sand ; a very little unde- 

 termined vegetable matter. 

 1518. Male. Watkins, N. Y. December 15, 1885 ; 4 p. m. H. C. Griswold. 



Animal matter, 12 per cent.; vegetable, 63 ; gravel, etc., 25. Stomach full. 



Contents. Remains of corn, acorns, or chestnuts ; some other seeds too much 

 comminuted to determine ; numerous insect remains ; large quantity of 

 gravel. 



4600. Male. Rockaway Beach, Long Island, N. Y. December 17, 1885. Jonathan 

 Dwight, jr. 



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

 empty. 



Contents. The animal matter of one or more shell-fish (apparently a mussel 

 and a barnacle, as bits of shell belonging to these are also contained); a 

 very little sand ; no insects. 

 1269. Female. Washington, D. C. December 2, 1885 ; 4 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 



Animal matter, 1 per cent.; vegetable, 75 ; gravel, etc., 20; indeterminate, 4. 



Contents. Fragments of 1 or 2 acorns or chestnuts ; large quantities of the 

 " skin " or hulls of grain, apparently of kernels of corn ; 30 seeds of poison 

 ivy; large amount of sand and gravel; some vegetable fiber and mud; 

 numerous but small fragments of the hard parts of insects. 



1297. Female. Washington, D. C. December 17, 1885; found dead. Dr. A. K. 



Fisher. 



Animal matter, 90 per cent.; vegetable, 2 ; gravel, etc., 8. Stomach about one- 

 fourth full. 



Contents. One cocoon of some insect, and 2 smaller cocoons, or egg-bags of 

 spider ; 12 or 15 small fragments of much-worn bone, perhaps taken as 

 "gravel;" a few bits of vegetable membrane, apparently epidermis of 

 some grain ; a very small amount of sand and gravel. 



1298. Washington, D. C. December 17, 1885 ; found wounded. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, 5 per cent.; vegetable, 85 ; gravel, etc., 8; indeterminate, 2. 

 Contents. Remains of 3 or 4 kernels of corn and the hulls of many more ; 90 



to 100 seeds of common sumach, apparently Rhus glabra ; fragments of 

 insects ; gravel and sand ; about 2 per cent, of fine mud-like material, not 

 determined. 



1299. Female. Washington, D. C. December 19, 1885 ; 4-5 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, 1 per cent.; vegetable, 80; gravel, etc., 19. Stomach well 



filled. 



Contents. Seven seeds of harmless sumach ; a large amount of vegetable mat- 

 ter, part of which may be bits of corn, acorns, etc., but the bulk seems more 

 like sea- weed ; a few fragments of the hard parts of insects ; a Large amount 

 of gravel and fine sand, with 2 or 3 bits of shell. 



1300. Male. Washington, D. C. December 19, 1885 ; 4-5 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 Animal matter, per cent ; vegetable, 90 ; gravel, etc., 10. Stomach well 



filled. 



Contents. Fragments of corn ; 75 seeds of poison ivy ; 60 seeds of common 

 sumach and 1 seed of grape ; gravel and bits of coal and brick ; no insect 

 remains. 



