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may be mentioned the case of the Colorado potato beetle [Dory- 

 phora lo-lineata), upon which the Crow was reported to feed by 

 many observers. The fact that not a single trace of this beetle was 

 found in any of the 909 stomachs, 500 of which were collected at 

 times and places favouring its capture, must be taken as proof 

 positive that the Crow rarely, if ever, touches the pest. The further 

 fact that only four species (each represented bv one or two indivi- 

 duals) belonging to the same family as the potato beetle (Chryso- 

 melidae) were found in the stomachs shows clearly that insects of 

 this kind are thoroughly disliked by the Crow. 



Following are a few examples of the voluminous testimony 

 received from correspondents : — 



California, San Bernardino. — F. Stephens : The Crow is in 

 the habit of following the plow, picking up cutworms, white 

 grubs, larvae, etc., sometimes in large quantities (1885). 



Canada, Ontario, London, — W. E. Saunders : Last summer 

 (1885) I watched a flock of probably 2,000 Crows catching grass- 

 hoppers. 



Connecticut, East Hartford. — Willard E. Treat: Worms and 

 grasshoppers are destroyed by Crows ; they eat large quantities of 

 grasshoppers and the large white grub usually found in cornfields, 

 especially in August 1885. 



South Woodstock, — Mrs. G. L. F. Stoddard : The Crow has been 

 observed to feed upon cutworms and grubs that live just beneath the 

 surface, and are more readily exposed by the pulling up of the corn, 

 which the cutworms and grubs would destroy (i886). 



Indiana, Brookville — A. W. Butler: The Crow feeds on the 

 seventeen-year cicada (1885). 



Medora. — Charles Eshorn, Jr. I have noticed them every season 

 walking over a meadow just after the hay has been cut, catching 

 grasshoppers, but I have never noticed them hunting insects in a 

 meadow after the grass was 2 or 3 inches high, and of course from 

 that time until it is cut is the time that insects damage it most 

 (1892). 



Nebraska. — J. D. Kuster : Crows have fed extensively on locusts 

 this year (18S5). 



Iowa, Wapello, D. C. Beaman : It will feed on all kind of grubs 

 and worms which are thrown out by the plow (1886). 



Louisiana, Abbeville, — W. W, Edwards : I have not observed 

 them eating any insects except the larvae and grubs, on which they 

 feed extensively in the spring on fresh-plowed ground. I am not 

 able to say what larvae they feed on (1886). 



