APPENDIX IV. 345 



1889. Barkows, W. B. The Kose-breasted Grosbeak. United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Beport, 1888, pages 

 535, 536. 



Extracts from correspondence tend to prove this species a 

 valuable friend to the farmer from the fact of its feeding freely 

 on the Colorado potato-beetle. 



1889. Barkows, W. B. The Food of Crows. United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Beport, 1888, pages 498-535. 



Short introduction, followed by a long discussion on both the 

 common and fish-crow, with many extracts from correspondence. 

 Information has been collected on distribution of the crows, 

 injury to various cereals, damage to other crops, other vege- 

 table food, distribution of noxious seeds, as a destroyer of eggs 

 and young of poultry and wild birds, insect food, as an enemy 

 to grasshoppers, as an enemy to potato beetles, insect food as 

 revealed by an examination of the stomachs, as an enemy to 

 field mice, miscellaneous animal food, and as a scavenger. The 

 paper is closed by the results in detail of the examination of 

 a large number of stomachs of the common and a few of the fish- 

 crow. 



1889. Blatchlet, W. S. Our Feathered Friends of Indiana. 

 A series of five articles in Indiana Farmer, under dates 

 of May 4, May 18, May 25, and November 23, 1889, and 

 March 29, 1890. 



1889. Fisher, A. K. The Sparrow Hawk. United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Beport, 1888. 



Range and habits, extracts from correspondence and account 

 of the contents of one hundred and sixty-three stomachs from 

 various localities. 



1889. Fisher, A. K. The Short-eared Owl. United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Beport, 1888, pages 496- 

 498. 



Short account of the habits and food of this species, with 

 extracts from correspondence. 



