RESULTS OF DISSECTION. 



Our level best we all have tried 



With scarecrows, nets, aud cunning cages, 

 Our utmost efforts they deride, 



And spoil our fruit in all its stages. 



Lift up your heads, your hearts lift up, 



Resume your spades, your ploughs and harrows, 



And while you drain the genial cup, 

 I'll tell you how to lick the sparrows. 



No more your wasted fruits bewail, 

 Your crops destroyed of peas and marrows, 



A cure there is that can not fail 

 To rid you of the hateful sparrows; 



The remedy is at your feet, 



Slay them and wheel them out in barrows, 

 Poisoned by Faulding's Phceuix wheat, 



The one great antidote to sparrows. 



TABLES OF POOD AS SHOWN BY DISSECTION. 



We conclude the discussion of the insect food of the Sparrow with 

 tables giving the entire contents, so far as it was possible to determine 

 them, of 522 stomachs dissected at the Department of Agriculture, and 

 of 114 stomachs dissected at West Chester, Pa. 



Of the number dissected at the Department of Agriculture, 338 were 

 from birds killed in Washington, and many of these were examined 

 within an hour or two after death. The remaining 181 stomachs were 

 sent to Washington in alcohol. In all cases they were carefully exam- 

 ined in the Ornithological Division first, by Dr. A. K. Fisher, who 

 identified and recorded their general contents. Subsequently those 

 which contained any traces of insect remains, or in which the presence 

 of such material was suspected (102 in all), were referred to the Ento- 

 mological Division for further examination, and 92 were found to con- 

 tain insect remains in greater or less abundance. From Professor 

 Riley's report on this subject the data have been obtained for the in- 

 sect columns in the following tables, which were prepared by Dr. A. K. 

 Fisher, assistant ornithologist. 



It is only necessary to say, in explanation of these tables, that a cross 

 in any column indicates that the kind of food specified at the head of 

 that column was found in the specimen against which the cross stands. 

 No attempt was made to estimate the percentages of different kinds of 

 food in the individual stomachs, except in the case of the insect food, 

 to which reference has been made already. 



