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Bayou Goula. — W. C. Percy : It has been observed to eat 

 locusts, but I have never been able to find any other insect in its 

 stomach except grubs, etc. (1885). 



Maine, North Livermore. — George H. Berry : The Crow eats 

 grasshoppers, potato bugs, and Clisiocampa larvae (1886). 



Massachusetts, Amherst. — Hubert L. Clark : I believe that the 

 Crow is largely insectivorous. It frequents marshes and open fields 

 in search of food in large flocks, where it destroys large quantities 

 of grubs, particularly those of the common June bug [Lachnosterna 

 fusca)f grasshoppers, and locusts. It also destroys cutworms (1885). 



East Templeton. — Charles E. Ingalls : I have seen the Crow eat 

 grasshoppers and have also seen it feed on a large white grub 

 taken from the ground in old fields (1885). 



Michigan, Hudson. — A. H. Boies : I have often observed it 

 seeking for grubs and other larvae in the spring, and know that it is 

 a great destroyer of such when other forage is scarce (1885). 



Lickleys Corners. — A. H. Carver : I have known them to follow 

 the plow in the spring and pick up cutworms and the large white 

 grub (1886). 



Thornville. — John S. Caulkins : The following statement rela- 

 tive to Crows eating cutworms was given me by a friend, William 

 B. Sutton, of Lapeer. He said he had plowed and dragged a piece 

 of old sod and noticed that a flock of Crows were frequenting it. 

 Sharing to some extent the hostility the farmers generally feel 

 toward the Crows on account of the damage they do to corn, he 

 concealed himself with his loaded shot-gun in a corner of the fence, 

 close to where the Crows worked, thinking to shoot a few and hang 

 them up as a terror to the rest. When the Crows came he distinctly 

 saw them turn over the sods, shake them to pieces, and eat the 

 cutworms that fell out. He came away without shooting, and since 

 then has been the professed friend of the Crow (i886). 



Nebraska, London. — George A. Coleman : In May and June we 

 find him following the plow, seeking earthworms, insects, and mice. 

 His favourite food is the larvae of the June bug {Lachnosterna 

 fusca), which he finds in great abundance (1888). 



New Hampshire, Webster. — Charles F. Goodhue : At this season 

 Crows are of some benefit to the farmer, as they feed mostly on 

 grasshoppers. To-day (August 22, 1885) a flock of nearly Joo 

 were observed in a pasture badly infested with grasshoppers, upon 

 which they were evidently feeding. 



