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times I have picked up a Woodcock 

 lying beneatli the telegraph wires, and 

 once I found a Meadow Lark hanging 

 from the barb of a wire fence. 



A friend in Virginia once shot an Am- 

 erican Merganser with an oyster firmly 

 adhering to its bill so that it was un- 

 able to open it, which would have died 

 first in this case I do not know, I have 

 heard of ducks, oyster- catchers, etc., be- 

 ing caught by clams at low water and 

 held until high tide when they were 

 drowned. 



While at Cobb's Island, Va., some 

 years ago, Capt. C. H. Crumb told me 

 that Loons were frequently found dead 

 in the gill nets, having dived for fish 

 and been caught themselves. 



In "Forest & Stream" I saw an ac- 

 count of a Crow being found hanging 

 from the limb of a tree, head down and 

 wings expanded, the claws firmly clasp- 

 ing the limb. The party writing it 

 wanted to know if the Crow had "La 

 Grippe." 



Mr. Harry Gordon White, in "O. & 

 O." May, 1889, tells of finding a Flicker 

 with a deep dent in its skull like that 

 sometimes seen in a derby hat; also of 

 one found in nesting hole with feet 

 frozen to ice; and of finding one each 

 of the Mourning Dove, Swamp Spar- 

 row and Fox Sparrow killed by flying 

 against the telegraph wires. 



Mr. P. C. Kirkwood tells me of a 

 Chimney Swift killed by striking on the 

 tip of a lightning rod two years ago; the 

 skeleton is still there now. 



It is often the case that birds are killed 

 in their migration by flying against the 

 lighthouse. Once I saw an account of 

 many being killed in some city in Iowa 

 by flying against the store windows at 

 night, being blinded by the electric 

 lights inside. 



Young ducks, grebes, etc., are fre- 

 quently gobbled up (or down) by pike 

 and other fish. I remember once read- 

 ing an account of the skeleton of an 

 Osprey and a large fish being found, the 



talons of the bird being set in the fish 

 so that it was impossible to release it, 

 the fish evidently being too large and 

 heavy for it to carry. 



During the cold snap in January, 

 1893, the ground being covered with 

 snow for some weeks, many game birds 

 as well as others perished. In the last 

 ten days we have had parallel weather 

 and reports have been coming in from 

 all sections of the state of Partridges 

 (Bobwhite) and other birds found 

 frozen. Wm. H. Fisher, 



Baltimore, Md. 



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