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2240. Male. Washington, D. C. September 7, 1886; 11a. m. F. A. Lucas. 
Animal matter, 10 per cent; vegetable, 80; gravel, etc., 10. Stomach about 
half full. 
Contents. —Grape seeds and skins, with a little pulp and much vegetable fiber; 
other vegetable material not identifiable ; 7 seeds of poison ivy ; small 
amount of gravel; a few insect remains. 
The grape seeds are undoubtedly those of cultivated grapes, as this bird 
and No. 2239 were shot near a vineyard, the owner of which complained of 
the great damage done by the crows. 
2698. Alfred Centre, N. Y. September 7, 1886. F. S. Place. 
Animal matter, 95 percent.; vegetable, 5; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than 
half full. 
Contents. —One stone of wild cherry and a very little fine vegetable matter, 
probably from the fruit of the same ; several grasshoppers and perhaps 
other insects ; no gravel. 
2242. Male. Shelter Island, New York. September 11, 1886 ; a. m. W. W. Worth¬ 
ington. 
Animal matter, 10 per cent., vegetable, 85 ; gravel, etc., 5. Stomach well filled. 
Contents. —About 50 seeds of bay-berry or wax-berry ( Myriea cerifera ); hulls 
of corn or some other grain, with a few small bits of the grain ; a little 
fine vegetable material, not identified; remains of the legs of a small 
crustacean ; 4 small snail shells (marine); 2 vertebrae of small fish ; a few 
fragments of insects ; a little sand. 
4587. Male. Shelter Island, New York. October 1, 1886; a, in. W. W. Worth¬ 
ington. 
Animal matter, 25 per cent.; vegetable, 60; gravel, etc., 15. Stomach about 
half full. 
Contents. —Fragments of acorns or chestnuts, and, perhaps of some other seeds, 
but these mainly ; remains of a crayfish ; 4 or 5 minute bits of an insect; 
considerable sand, but no pebbles. 
4588. Male. Shelter Island, New York. October 1, 1886; a. in. W. W. Worth¬ 
ington. 
Animal matter, 0 per cent.; vegetable, 100; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than 
half full. 
Contents. —Remains of a dozen or more kernels of corn ; about 50 stones of 
bay-berry {Myriea cerifera)', a single stone of some wild Primus, probably 
the beecli plum (P. maritima); 3 small claw tips of a crab or crayfish, 
probably taken as gravel (?); no insects. 
2269. Female, adult. Sing Sing, N. Y. October 2, 1886 ; 3 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 2 per cent.; vegetable, 95 ; gravel, etc., 3. Stomach full. 
Contents.— Nineteen seeds of flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida)’, 17 seeds of 
bay-berry (Myriea cerifera ); bits of shell of chestnuts and large amount 
of chestnut “meat;” 8 vertebrae and other small bones of a small fish; 
minute bits of the shell of insects ; little sand and gravel. 
1439. Essex Junction, Vt. October 3, 1885 ; 10 a. m. Charles A. Davis. 
Animal matter, 1 per cent.; vegetable, 10; gravel, etc., 89. Stomach nearly 
empty. 
Contents. —Skin and pulp of a single fruit, perhaps a grape, but no seeds ; large 
quantity of sand and gravel; minute fragments of the hard parts of in¬ 
sects. 
1444. Winfield N. Y. October 4, 1885 ; a. m. O. P. Hitchings. 
Animal matter, 5 per cent.; vegetable, 5 ; gravel, etc., 85 ; indeterminate, 5. 
Contents.— A few bits of oats and perhaps other grain ; a mixture of finely 
pulverized vegetable and mineral matter, forming a fine black mud ; a 
large amount of sand and pebbles ; a few fragments of insects. 
