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BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
Contents. — Remains of kernels of corn, forming about 70 per cent, of entire 
stomach contents ; about 15 seeds of common sumach (ii/ms) and 1 seed of 
poison sumach (Rhus venenata)\ about 10 per cent, of bits of flesh and 
ligament of some animal, probably carrion ; a large amount of clean sand 
without pebbles ; no insect remains. 
4433. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 15, 1887 ; a. m; Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 15 percent.; vegetable, 10; gravel, etc., 75. Stomach less than 
half full. 
Contents. — Three unknown seeds, probably of apple, pear, or quince ; a small 
amount of vegetable matter like pulp of fruit ; a single hog bristle and a 
number of bits of meat, probably carrion ; a large amount of sand without 
any gravel or pebbles ; no insect remains. 
4434. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; a. m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 15 per cent.; vegetable, 10; gravel, etc., 75. Stomach about 
half full. 
Contents. — A few skins of berries or seeds in small bits, and a little other fine 
vegetable debris ; a single hog bristle and bits of animal tissue, probably 
carrion ; about 2 per cent, of insect remains, all of a single insect ; a large 
amount of sand, and two or three small pebbles. 
4435. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 5 per cent.; vegetable, 3 ; gravel, etc., 92. Stomach almost 
empty. 
Contents. — One or two hog bristles and a few shreds of animal membrane, 
probably carrion ; a few bits of hulls of corn or other grain ; a little sand 
and many small fragments of some hard black mineral ; no insect remains. 
4436. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 35 per cent.; vegetable, 60 ; gravel, etc., 5. Stomach about half 
full. 
Contents. — About 100 seeds of poison \yj(Bhus toxicodendron')., and 7 seeds of 
common sumach (Rhus); about 35 per cent, of shreds and bits of animal 
membrane, probably carrion ; a little sand and five or six small pebbles ; 
no insects. 
4437. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 40 per cent. ; vegetable, 10; gravel, etc., 50. Stomach almost 
empty. 
Contents. — Two seeds of harmless sumach (Rhus) and a few hulls and skins 
of other seeds or grain ; one hog bristle and a few shreds and small masses 
of muscle and tendon, probably carrion ; sand without pebbles ; no in 
sects. 
4438. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 16, 1887 ; 2 p. m. Williard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 14 per cent.; vegetable, 85; gravel, etc., 1. Stomach well 
filled. 
Contents. — Remains of about 20 kernels of corn, 9 or 10 of them nearly entire ; 
about 80 seeds of harmless sumach (Rhus) ; one or two hog bristles, and 
many shreds and bits of meat, probably carrion ; a very little sand ; no in- 
sects. I 
4450. Female. East Hartford, Conn. January 31, 1887 ; 10 a. m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 5 per cent. ; vegetable, 48 ; gravel, etc., 47. Stomach well filled. 
Contents. — Remains of kernels of corn, mostly hulls; one or two small shreds 
of meat (carrion?) ; a dozen or more caddis-fly cases and some of the legs 
of the larvae [Tyler Townsend] ; a large amount of sand and gravel. 
4451. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 31, 1887 ; 10 a. m. Williard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 50 per cent. ; vegetable, 50 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than 
half full. 
Contents. — Scraps and shreds of meat and animal membrane (carrion ?) ; about 
120 seeds of harmless sumach (R/ms), and other remains of the berries; 
no gravel or sand ; no insects. 
