Goinplately destroyed before it rix^ened. Apples were also 
severeljr darnaged but this fruit at Higley is of no ccriraeroial 
importance* 
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Mr Hawley has about 3 acres in fiTiit trees, grape vines, 
etc.; the list just mentioned includes only those fruits that 
rip)ened during the writer’s stay. There many trees laden 
with green peaches but it is probable that the c^utiil will allow 
very few to rix^en. 
SPECIES DOIKG 
Lophortyx gambeli is without question the most serious x)est. 
Quail were abundant about the place and fed constantly on pcxches 
'^gr^en fruit included) and berries. As many as 100 at one time 
were flushed from the little cotton field beside tlie orchard. 
Pext in the order of imx:)ortancQ were the thrashers ( Toxostoma 
PHimeri ] , which fed on everything that was edible* Apricots 
and grapes particularly suffered from their d6]o^*Qti^t ions. 
Orioles ( Icterus bullocki and nelsoni ) were not numer- 
ous, but destructive to peaches, apricots and grapes* 
Verdins ( ^uriparus f lav i ceps ) were abundant and seriously 
damaged peaches and grapes* 
Mimus polyglottos ^ Golaj^tees chrysoides . pryobates bairdi 
did some damage but the last two cannot be considered of much 
imjjortance# 
COHTHOL* 
In an effort to find some means of controlling the destruct- 
ive birds a number of formulae v;ere tried out, using as vehicles 
raisins, dried apples, green grapes, tomatoes, cantaloupes, plums 
peaches, millet [Z varieties), fetarita, kaffir, Vwheat, shallu, 
rice, oats, chick feed, and water, and employing strj^chnine 
(sulphate and alkaloid), corrosive mercuric chloride, potassium 
bichromate, and x^otassium ci^anide as poisons. 
The inconclusive experiments indicate that potassium cyanide 
and corrosive mercuric chloride are worthless and that the action 
of potassium bichromrte is too slow to be of value. Gtrychnine, 
wliila lethal enough to most birds, when they can be induced to 
take it, seeras to have no effect on quail. (One exception to 
this statement will arjpoar later, j 
Most ex^jeriments produces negative results: but it was found 
that by injecting ripe peaches with a solution of strychnine 
