No. 2.] Reprints and Miscellaneous Notes, gg 



New Jersey, Merchantville. — Edward Burrough : The Crow 

 ought not to be condemned for it is one of our best insectivorous birds. 

 It eats the June bug and the larvae of any insect plowed up in the 

 spring, such as white grubs and cutworms (1886). 



New York, Alfred Center, — F. S. Place : Crows destroy insects. 

 Several specimens taken by me last spring (i886) had their 

 stomachs filled with insects, mostly Coleoptera. 



Boonville. — Morris M. Green : Near Boonville I have seen the 

 Crow feeding on grasshoppers during the summer months. Some 

 fields seemed to be fairly black with the birds pursuing the grass- 

 hoppers in every direction. One day noticing a Rock of Crows 

 frequenting a particular field, I visited the place and found that the 

 roots of the grass had been completely eaten away, so that the sod 

 or turf could be rolled up like a rug or carpet. A farmer livincr in 

 the vicinity told me that the Crows visited the place every day to 

 feed upon the grubs that destroyed the turf. The grubs or larvje 

 were about three-fourths of an inch in length ; body whitish, with 

 some dull plumbeous underneath ; head blackish. I think these are 

 the kind so often found in corn hills and which do much damage to 

 the corn. If so, this speaks a good word for the Crow (1887). 



Waverly. — S. J. Wolcott : Crows in the spring time feed largely 

 on cutworms, both on sod lands and after the same have been 

 plowed. I have known them to work on cutworms in my tobacco 

 field. After setting, when the worms are cutting the young plants, 

 the Crows are there every morning, and no doubt destroy great 

 numbers of them. They have been reported to eat potato bugs to 

 some extent, but I am not prepared to verify the statement, 1892. 



North Carolina, Ptttsboro. — E. T. Adney : It eats a great many 

 insects, particularly grasshoppers (1885). 



Ohio, Wakeman, — W. B. Hall : Crows are decidedly insectivo- 

 rous if domestication does not alter their habits. At different 

 times I have kept Crows which were taken from the rest when 

 nearly full fledged. They became very tame, so that I had a chance 

 to watch their actions and manner of feeding. I find that they are 

 not particular in their diet as to whether the insect is injurious or 

 beneficial. They feed greedily on the different species of cutworm 

 {Agrotis) and on the white grub (larva of Lachnosterna fusca). 

 When plowing they will follow in the furrow and pick up every grub 

 or beetle in sight, and when their appetites are satisfied, they fill 

 their beaks with insects and hide them under sticks, leaves or stones. 

 I have often taken the pains to look up their hiding-places and 

 count the insects thus hidden, and I have been astonished at their 



