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Extracts from correspondence tend to prove this species a 
valuable friend to the farmer from the fact of its feeding 
freely on the .Colorado potato beetle. 
1889. Barrows, A\ r . B. The Food of Crows. U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Report, 1888, pp. 498-535. 
Short introduction followed by a long discussion on both 
the common and fish crow, with many extracts from corre- 
spondence. Information has been collected on distribution 
of the crows, injury to various cereals, damage to other crops, 
other vegetable food, distribution of noxious seeds, as a 
destroyer of eggs and young of poultry and wild birds, insect 
food, as an enemy to grasshoppers, as an enemy to potato 
beetles, insect food as revealed by an examination of the 
stomachs, as an enemy to field mice, miscellaneous animal 
food, and as a scavenger. The paper is closed by the results 
in detail of the examination of a large number of stomachs of 
the common and a few of the fish crow. 
B latch ley, W. S. Our Feathered Friends of Indiana. 
A series of five articles in Indiana Farmer, under dates 
of May 4, May 18, May 25, and Nov. 23, 1889, and 
March 29, 1890. 
Fisher, A. K. The Sparrow Hawk. U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Report, 1888. 
Range and habits, extract from correspondence and ac- 
count of the contents of 163 stomachs from various localities. 
1889. Fisiier, A. K. The Short-eared Owl. U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Report, 1888, pp. 496-498. 
Short account of the habits and food of this species, with 
extracts from correspondence. 
1889. Goss, N. S. Feeding Habits of Pelecanus erytlirorhynclios . 
Transactions Kansas Academy of Science, v. XI, pp. 
11, 12. See also The Auk, v. V, pp. 25-27. 
1889. Merriam, C. H. Introduced Pheasants. U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Report, 1888, pp. 484-488. 
Account of the introduction of certain game birds into the 
western portion of the United States, and extract from cor- 
respondence in regard to them. 
1889. 
1889. 
