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numbers. They kill predaceous beetles, but do not often eat them, 

 I think, on account of the peculiar odour most of them emit. For the 

 sake of experiment, I have taken the Crows to a board or stone 

 which, on being removed, exposed many black beetles (mostly 

 Galerita). They would pounce on a beetle, give it a pinch through 

 the head or thorax, drop it, and seize another with such rapidity that 

 but few, if any, escaped. I could not on any condition tempt their 

 appetites with Colorado beetles, squash bugs, cucumber bugs, or any 

 of the soldier bugs or lady birds {Coccimlla). I had a male Crow 

 that would eat the cabbage caterpillar {Pieris rapse') with evident 

 relish, while his mate disdained such plebian diet. They would 

 kill the sow bugs {Omscus) and species of Myriapoda, but would not 

 eat them. 



Wauseon. — Thomas Mikesell : It feeds on cutworms. May 

 beetles, white grubs, chinch bugs, and eggs of grasshoppers. 

 These form its principal food (1885). 



Waverly. — H. W. Overman : It is a lover of grasshoppers and 

 destroys great numbers of them, especially in the fall {1885), 



Oregon, Dilley, — George S. Johns : It feeds extensively on grass- 

 hoppers and crickets (1885). 



Pennsylvania, East Brook. — T. Scott Fisher : I watched a pair of 

 Crows follow me day after day last spring (1886) while plowing sod, 

 and have seen one Crow pick up 25 to 40 white grubs, cutworms, 

 and wireworms at one time, and then fly to the woods for an hour 

 or so, then back again. 



Philadelphia, — J. Percy Moore ; When the seventeen year 

 Cicada appeared this summer (1885) the Crow fed extensively on both 

 its pupae and imagos. The young were fed, to some extent, on the 

 pupae (May 30, 1885). As they had not at this time appeared 

 above the ground, I suppose the Crows obtained them in plowed 

 fields. On June 17, I noticed them feeding on the adults. I have 

 seen Crows feeding in plowed fields before the grain was planted 

 (March 10, 1885), and I think they were feeding on the larvae of 

 the June bug or other beetles which live on the ground. I have 

 also seen them eat large ants which live on trees and burrow into the 

 wood (July i) and other species of insects which I was not able to 

 identify from a distance. 



Vermount, Hydeville. — A. I. Johnson: Crows catch countless 

 numbers of crickets and grasshoppers after the hay is cut. They 

 can be seen almost any time of day on the meadows catching grass- 

 hoppers. I observed one pair of old Crows this summer, when I was 

 haying, that were feeding their young almost entirely on grass- 



