Dovea 2 
troyiHU moyo than thej” ®at« TMra are said to be fm@r in the yall©;.- this 
year than there wro last, or the year before, ibetlier this is dne to tbs 
stooting , new allowed, or to sarse other eause, is a question. As aontioned 
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before, thj> whitenings are nojk^on the desert, fm&illug on the sadmaroe, and i 
saw but Isalf a dosea, eo I em unable to report ar^thii-ig ivosn personal obser- 
vat ion, 
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More namerous tlian the last but aorc- widelj'' and eiren 
ly distributed, aaid as they stay in the mll^/ oontimousls?, J oonsidsr that 
? do not botljei’ 
in the i-iggregate, they do more dasage tlmn tha last. I 
Eorghuffi as much as the v&itawings, but fiod njore eont inuousijr on wheat and 
ImrJdy, standing, in 
shook, and on stubblo. I shot 12 in a wheat field 
8 Kilos \5fest of Phoenix June 21, at d.S0-7«30 ?• Is* She field was about 12 
acres in extent, and I OEtliaate that there woi*e SSO doiras feoding on tM 
ground at the tiso. Sone of the arope wore very full, and rnias, alxaost 
pty. All, practically, had at least 5 or 4 smll y/e@d goefis and lacst Imd on® 
or £ grains of hirloy. 12 hold only aijoat, I hold 5(^;S wheat and 50'^ of w'eod 
seed (iMaple |2| cro-p distondod, 2 hold 85^1 uhsat and of weed seed 
(ssapi© #l),cl held 25^ of wheat and 5*2 of wood good (sassplc #1], 1 lujld 90^ 
vdieat and 10;S green loaves of soao wsed, 1 hold 97^ whoat and 3;l weed seed, 
(ss 4 st)lo f3|, and 1 hold 89/2 -wheat and 1^ wood seed, ean^l© #3. 
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!n© of the abOTO, whose crop sosraod to bo only about 2/3 dls tended, 
liold 207 grains of wheat* I’he m®b 0 rs of those birds in the whole vall^ 
zfflist total an enormous figure* 
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Hot only in Phoenix, but along the Gila Pdver 1 have met no one who 
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had a good word to say for the doves and all were xinanimous in oondanning 
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