332 APPENDIX IV. 



1875. Wheaton, J. M. The Food of Birds as Belated to Agri- 

 culture. Ohio Agricultural Eeport for 1874 (1875), 

 pages 561-578 (September, 1875). Also reprint, repaged, 

 but otherwise unchanged, pages 1-18. 



" This is in effect » corrected and completed list of the birds 

 of Ohio, briefly annotated, and with the general food regimen 

 of each family given; being a well-conceived essay of much 

 practical utility." Coues, Bibliographical Appendix, Birds of 

 Colorado Valley, 1878, page 716. 



1876. Coues, Elliott. The Destruction of Birds by Telegraph 

 Wires. American Naturalist, vol. x., pages 734-736. 



Many hundreds of thousands of birds killed. Instances cited. 



1877. Allen, J. A. Destruction of Birds in the United States. 

 Popular Science Monthly, vol. x., page 636. 



Review of article by Mr. Allen in Perm Monthly, condemning 

 the wholesale slaughter of the herons in Florida. 



1877. Caton, J. W. The Wild Turkey and its Domestication. 

 American Naturalist, vol. xi., pages 321-330. 



The young; effects of domestication; characters of sexes; 

 food; three principles of domestication. 



1877. Calvin, Samuel. On Changes of Habit among Wood- 

 peckers. American Naturalist, vol. xi., pages 471-472. 



Struggle for life among bark-searching insects during recent 

 geologic ages, severe, etc. 



1878. Aughey, Samuel. Kotos on the Nature of the Food of 

 the Birds of Nebraska. United States Entomological 

 Commission, First Eeport, Appendix II. 



A very important paper showing the relation of birds to out- 

 breaks of the Rocky Mountain locust. 



1878. Lockwood, Samuel. The Night Herons and their Exo- 

 dus. American Naturalist, vol. xii., pages 29-35. 



The quantity of food consumed by these birds. 



