Bui. 868, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate IV. 



Fig. I.— Sweet Corn Damaged by Mixed Flocks of 

 Starlings and Red-Winged Blackbirds. 



Only a small portion of the corn in this patch, saved for seed, was 

 harvested, owing to the depredations of birds. Red-winged black- 

 birds were chiefly to blame. 



Fig. 2.— Russet Apples Damaged by Starlings. 



These apples were from the tops of trees in an old orchard near Adelphia, N. J. Some of the damaged 

 fruit showed evidence that the birds returned to an apple opened on a previous visit. 



