8 ILLtrSTEATIONS. 



TEXT PIGUKES. „ 



12 



Fig. 1. Meadowlark - 



2. Mourning dove 



3. Song sparrow 



4. Catbird -- ^Z 



5. May-fly g 



6. Tobacco worm .- 



7. Pale-striped flea-beetle..: ^" 



8. Rose-chafer ^^ 



9. Kingbird ^^ 



10. Grasshopper -- ■''' 



11. AVeevil - ^'^ 



12. Ground-beetle - - - ^^ 



1.3. Ichneumon-fly ^^ 



14. Cutworm and moth - - - - 42 



15. Dung-beetle - - - ^2 



16. Barn swallow - - - - 47 



17. Diagram shovring proportions of food of common crow - 48 



18. Diagram showing proportions of food of crow blackbird 49 



19. Cooper hawk , 51 



20. Great horned owl 52 



21. Melons damaged by crows 58 



22. Pellet ejected by crow - 6.3 



23. Some common seeds found in crow pellets 64 



24. Common crow 65 



25. Crow blackbird 67 



26. English sparrow 68 



27. Weed seeds commonly eaten by birds 71 



28. Field sparrow 74 



29. Goldfinch 75 



30. Yellow-billed cuckoo '. 87 



31. Yellow-bellied sapsucker 89 



32. Flicker 90 



33. Phoebe 93 



34. Blue jay 94 



35. Bobolink , 95 



36. Red-winged blackbird 96 



37. Cedar bird ' 99 



38. Mockingbird 105 



39. Brown thrasher 106 



40. House wren _. ... 107 



41. Robin 109 



