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Chapter IV.— Vegetable food of the Crow— Continued. Page. 



Grass and weed seeds 80 



Wild rice (Zizania) 81 



Fruit 81 



Grapes 81 



Cherries 82 



Strawberries 82 



Blackberries and raspberries 83 



Apples 83 



Figs 84 



Watermelons 84 



Wild fruits 85 



Poisonous and harmless sumac 85 



Chapter V. — Protection of crops 88 



Tarring corn 89 



Use of poison 91 



Bounties 92 



Appendix — List of localities at which Crow stomachs were collected. . 95 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Common Crow (Corvus americanus) Frontispiece. 



TEXT FIGURES. 



Paga 



1. Crow pellet - 23 



2. Some common seeds found in Crow pellets 24 



