INDEX. 



Agelaius guhernator calif ornicus, 44. 

 Agelaius phceniceus, 33. 

 Boat-tailed grackle, 70-72. 

 food, animal, 71. 



vegetable, 71. 

 stomachs collected, 76. 

 Bobolink, 12-22. 



destruction of rice by, 13-18. 

 food, animal, 19-20,22. 



vegetable, 20-21, 22. 

 regarded as game, 8. 

 stomachs collected, 72. 

 Brewer's blackbird, 50-52. 

 food, animal, 50-51,52. 

 vegetable, 51,52. 

 stomachs collected, 75. 

 Bronzed grackle, 53. 

 California red-winged blackbird, 44-45. 

 food, animal, 45. 



vegetable, 45. 

 stomachs collected, 74. 

 Cowbird, 22-30. 



food, animal, 24-26, 29. 

 vegetable, 26-29. 

 parasitism of, 23-24, 30. 

 stomachs collected, 73. 

 Crow blackbird, 53-70. 

 food, animal, 60-63, 69. 

 of nestlings, 67-68. 

 vegetable, 64-66, 69. 

 grain destruction by, 56-57. 

 nest robbing by, 57-58. 

 stomachs collected, 75-76. 

 Destruction of grain by crow blackbird, 56-57. 

 of grain by red-winged blackbird, 41^3. 

 of rice by bobolink, 13-18. 

 Dolichonyx oryzivorus, 12. 

 Florida grackle, 53. 

 Food, animal, boat-tailed grackle, 71. 

 bobolink, 19-20,22. 

 Brewer's blackbird, 50-51. 

 California red-winged blackbird, 45. 

 cowbird, 24-26. 

 crow blackbird, 60-63. 

 nestling crow blackbirds, 67-68. 

 red-winged blackbird, 39-40. 

 rusty blackbird, 46-47. 

 yellow-headed blackbird, 31. 



Food, vegetable, boat-tailed grackle, 71. 



bobolink, 20-21. 



Brewer s blackbird, 51. 



California red-winged blackbird, 45. 



cowbird, 26-29. 



crow blackbird, 64-66. 



red-winged blackbird, 40-43. 



rusty blackbird, 47-48. 



yellow-headed blackbird, 31-32. 

 Game, bobolink regarded as, 8. 



red- winged blackbird regarded as, 8. 

 Grain destruction, by crow blackbird, 56-57. 



by red-winged blackbird, 41-43. 

 Molothrus ater, 22. 



Nestlings of crow blackbird, food of, 67-68. 

 Nest robbing by crow blackbird, 57-58. 

 Parasitism of cowbird, 23-24, 30. 

 Protection, exemption of blackbirds from, 8. 

 Purple grackle, 53. 

 Quiscalus major, 70. 

 Quiscalus quiscula, 53. 

 Quiscalus quiscula xneus, 53. 

 Quiscalus quiscula aglxus, 53. 

 Red-shouldered blackbird, 33. 

 Red-winged blackbird, 33-44. 



food, animal, 39-40, 44. 



vegetable, 40-43, 44. 



grain destruction by, 41-43. 



regarded as game, 8. 



stomachs collected, 74. 

 Reedbird, 13. 

 Ricebird, 13. 



Rice destruction by bobolink, 13-18. 

 Rusty blackbird, 45-49. 



food, animal, 46^7, 49. 



vegetable, 47^8,49. 



stomachs collected, 74-75. 

 Rusty grackle, 45. 

 Scolecophagus carolinus, 46. 

 Scolecophagus cyanocephalus, 50. 

 Starling, American, 33. 

 Stomachs collected, tables of, 72-76. 

 Swamp blackbird, 33. 

 Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, 30. 

 Yellow-headed blackbird, 30-33. 



food, animal, 31, 33. 



vegetable, 31-32, 33. 



stomachs collected, 73. 



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