APPENDIX. 
3S1 
Animal Contents of Stomachs. 
No. of 
stomachs 
in which 
found. 
Animal Contents of Stomachs. 
No. of 
stomachs 
in which 
found. 
Carrion. 
14 
Remains of other crustaceans.. 
5 
Remains of mice. 
4 
mussels or clams. 
4 
snake. 
1 
snails of various kinds. . . 
6 
frogs. 
5 
insects,. 
611 
salamander. 
1 
spiders. 
2 
fish. 
9 
myriapod. 
I 
crayfish. 
C> 
The following statement from Mr. John M. Richardson, of Daingerfield, Tex., is 
interesting in this connection from its novelty. Mr. Richardson writes : 
The crow is known to catch young terrapins, and there is reason to believe that it destroys 
other small reptiles. I remember a rock-crowned hill on the east bank of the Wateree, between 
Manchester and Statesburgh, in Sumpter county, Ga., that was almost covered with remains of 
small terrapins and land tortoises carried there, killed, and devoured by crows. 
Results in Detail of the Examination of Stomachs of the Common 
Crow ( Corvus americanus). 
[Note.— The following records of dissection are from examinations of stomachs preserved in 
alcohol and forwarded to the Department of Agriculture by the collectors whose names accom¬ 
pany the records in the list below. Unless otherwise stated the determinations of the various 
items of stomach contents have been made entirely by members of the division, the writer being 
responsible for the larger part. The percentages of the food elements in each case are to be re¬ 
garded simply as approximate; they are merely careful estimates, no exact measurement being 
practicable. As elsewhere stated, the remains of insects were referred to the entomologist of 
the department, for critical study, and a summary of his preliminary report has been given on 
a previous page.] 
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2648. Male. Schraalenburgh, N. J. January 2, 1886; 9.30 a. m. F. J. Dixon. 
Animal matter. 0 per cent.; vegetable, 90; gravel, etc., 6; indeterminate, 4. 
Stomach less than half full. 
Contents. —Fragments of corn, acorns, etc.; 3 bits of insect legs; fine mud¬ 
like matter not determined ; a little sand and gravel. 
2649. Female. Schraalenburgh, N. J. January 2, 1886 ; 10.30 a. m. F. J. Dixon. 
Animal matter, 7 percent.; vegetable, 90; gravel, etc., 3. Stomach well filled. 
Contents. —Remains of corn, pumpkin and cucumber seeds and perhaps other 
seeds ; remains of muscular fiber, probably from a mussel or clam as some 
of it was attached to a piece of a shell, apparently that of bivalve ; a few 
bits of shell and a little sand ; no remains of insects. 
7012. Chester county, Pa. January 12, 1887. Dr. B. H. Warren. 
Animal matter, 25 per cent.; vegetable, 50; gravel, etc., 25. Stomach about 
two-thirds full. 
Contents. —A few bits of com (kernels), and a large amount of hulls of corn 
or other grain, with some other vegetable fiber; 4 seeds of poison ivy 
(Rhus toxicodendron ); 2 vertebrae of small bird* and several fragments of 
bone of small fish* ; 3 or 4 small beetles and a large quantity of other in¬ 
sect remains and one spider ; a good supply of coarse gravel. 
7013. Chester county, Pa. January 15, 1887. Dr. B. H. Warren. 
Animal matter, 1 per cent.; vegetable, 90; gravel, etc., 9. Stomach about 
three-fourths full. 
Contents.— One hundred and fifty-three seeds of poison ivy ( Rhus toxicoden¬ 
dron ), about 125 seeds of sumach (j Rhus glabra 1; egg-case of a spider; in¬ 
sect remains ; a fair amount of sand and gravel; a quantity of finely pul¬ 
verized vegetable matter mixed with fine sand. 
4432. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 15, 1887 ; a. in. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 10 per cent.; vegetable, 75; gravel, etc., 15. Stomach well 
filled. 
‘These bones were identified by F. A. Lucas. 
