ILLUSTRATIONS, 



TEXT FIGURES. 



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Fig. 1. Meadowlark ...__.,„,„ 12 



2. Mourning dove 13 



3. Song sparrow 16 



4. Catbird 18 



5. May-fly 22 



6. Tobacco worm 27 



7. Pale-striped flea-beetle 30 



8. Rose-chafer 31 



9. Kingbird 31 



10. Grasshopper 32 



11. Weevil 34 



12. Ground-beetle 37 



13. Ichneumon-fly 40 



14. Cutworm and moth 42 



15. Dung-beetle 42 



16. Barn swallow 47 



17. Diagram showing proportions of food of common crow 48 



18. Diagram showing proportions of food of crow blackbird 49 



19. Cooper hawk 51 



20. Great horned owl 52 



21. Melons damaged by crows 58 



22. Pellet ejected by crow 63 



23. Some common seeds found in crow pellets 64 



24. Common crow 65 



25. Crow blackbird 67 



26. English sparrow 68 



27. Weed seeds commonly eaten by birds 71 



28. Field sparrow 74 



29. Goldfinch 75 



30. Yellow-billed cuckoo 87 



31. Yellow-bellied sapsucker 89 



32. Flicker 90 



33. Phcebe 93 



34. Blue jay 94 



35. Bobolink 95 



36. Eed- winged blackbird 96 



37. Cedar bird 99 



38. Mockingbird 105 



39. Brown thrasher 106 



40. House wren 107 



41. Eobin 1 ,. 109 



