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been torn off to-day — or within a day or two. I see two 

 crows on the next swamp white oak westward, and I can 

 scarcely doubt that they did it. Probably one found 

 the young turtle at an open and springy place in the 

 meadow, or by the river, where they are constantly prey- 

 ing, and flew with it to this tree. Yet it is possible (?) 

 that it was frozen to death when they found it. 



Jan. 11, 1861. Horace Mann brings me the contents 

 of a crow's stomach in alcohol. It was killed in the vil- 

 lage within a day or two. It is quite a mass of frozen- 

 thawed apple, — pulp and skin, — with a good many 

 pieces of skunk-cabbage berries one fourth inch or less 

 in diameter, and commonly showing the pale-brown 

 or blackish outside, interspersed, looking like bits of 

 acorns, — never a whole or even half a berry, — and two 

 little bones as of frogs (?) or mice (?) or tadpoles ; also 

 a street pebble a quarter of an inch in diameter, hard to 

 be distinguished in appearance from the cabbage seeds. 



[See also under Herring Gull, pp. 14, 17 ; Ruffed 

 Grouse, p. 98 ; Hen-Hawks, p. 142 ; Fish Hawk, pp. 

 156, 157 ; Blue Jay, p. 226 ; General and Miscellane- 

 ous, pp. 416, 427, 431, 433.] 



