APPENDIX. 
383 
4452. Male. East Hartford, Conn. January 31, 1887; 10 a. m. Williard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 50 per cent. ; vegetable, 42 ; gravel, etc., 8. Stomach well filled. 
Contents .—Shreds and tendinous masses of animal matter, probably carrion ; 
remains of a few acorns or chestnuts ; 77 seeds of poison ivy ( Rhus toxi¬ 
codendron') ; about 175 seed of harmless sumach {lthus) ; a small amount 
of gravel and sand ; no insects. 
3059. Male. Sandy Spring, Md. February 4, 1887 ; a. m. H. H. Miller. 
Animal matter, 0 per cent. ; vegetable, 87 ; gravel, etc., 10; indeterminate, 3. 
Stomach well filled. 
Contents .—Corn almost entirely, more than half of it in large pieces, some nearly 
entire kernels and a large quantity of hulls ; about 10 per cent, of gravel 
and sand, the bulk of it being rusty quartz ; a small amount (3 per cent .) 
of fine “mud,” not identifiable ; no insects. 
4461. East Hartford, Conn. February 14, 1887 ; 10 a. m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 40 per cent.; vegetable, 50; gravel, etc., 10. Stomach well 
filled. 
Contents. —Remains of corn and perhaps other grains, with a few bits of grass 
and hulls of seeds ; about 60 seeds of harmless sumach {Rhus), apparently 
of two distinct species; 2 seeds of red cedar {Juniperus) ; a large amount 
of muscular fiber, fat, and sinews, probably carrion ; sand and gravel ; no 
insects. 
4462. Female. East Hartford, Conn. February 14, 1887 ; 10 a.m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 5 per cent., vegetable, 45; gravel, etc., 50. Stomach nearly 
empty. 
Contents. —Remnants of corn and hulls; a few bits of acorn shells; a bit of 
skin (without hair) of some animal; a single hog bristle ; a fair amount of 
fine sand, and two or three small pebbles ; no insects. 
4463. Female. East Hartford, Conn. February 14, 1887 ; 10 a.m. Willard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 1 percent; vegetable, 45; gravel, etc., 50; indeterminate, 4. 
Stomach about half full. 
Contents .—About 100 seeds of harmless sumach {Rhus), and a considerable 
amount of hulls, skins, etc., of these or other seeds and fruits ; a few 
minute bits of the hard parts of insects ; a little very fine black “mud,” 
not determined, sand, gravel, and bits of coke. 
4464. Male. East Hartford, Conn. February 14, 1887 ; 10 a. m. Williard E. Treat. 
Animal matter, 75 per cent. ; vegetable, 0; gravel, etc., 25. Stomach almost 
empty. 
Contents .—One hog bristle ; a very little muscular fiber and sinew and some 
fat, doubtless all carrion ; a small amount of fine sand ; no insects. 
3139. Male. West Goshen, Pa. February 15, 1886. Dr. B. H. Warren. 
Animal matter, 5 per cent.; vegetable, 93; gravel, etc., 2. Stomach about 
half full. 
Contents. —Remains of numerous kernels of corn; 6 seeds of sumach ; asmall 
bone from tarsus or carpus of some animal, apparently of the size of a dog 
or sheep ; a single piece of slate about one-half inch long; no insects. 
1331. Male. Washington, D. C. March 13, 1886 ; 4 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 1 percent. ; vegetable, 97 ; gravel, etc., 2. Stomach well filled. 
Contents. —Unidentified vegetable matter mainly ; a few bits of corn or other 
grain, with some hulls, bits of grass, and what appears to be young sprouts 
of some vegetable ; 3 or 4 small seeds not identified ; a single claw of a cray¬ 
fish and a few bits of insect remains ; no pebbles and very little sand. 
1379. Young. Saint Louis, Mo. May 23, 1885. Otto Widmann. 
Animal matter, 99 per cent. ; vegetable, 0 ; gravel, etc., 1. 
Contciits. —Many bones of frog ; numerous fragments of insects ; a very little 
sand. 
