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Contents. —Remains of acorns, chestnuts, and perhaps other seeds ; a single 
grape seed, and some hulls of corn or other grain, with much fine vege¬ 
table matter like saw-dust ; a considerable amount of sand and gravel; 
remains (fine) of many insects. 
1709. Male. Calhoun, Ga. November 28, 1885. R. Windsor Smith. 
Animal matter. 75 percent.; vegetable, 10; gravel, etc., 15. 
Contents. —Twenty-four seeds of poison ivy ; a small snake, 8 inches or more 
in length; a small snail (Helix); 1 very large spider; remains of many 
insects, constituting almost 40 per cent, of entire stomach contents ; 4 or 5 
pebbles ot the size of kernels of corn, and some sand ; a very little unde¬ 
termined vegetable matter. 
1518. Male. Watkins, N. Y. December 15, 1885; 4 p. m. H. C. Griswold. 
Animal matter, 12 per cent.; vegetable, 63 ; gravel, etc., 25. Stomach full. 
Contents. —Remains of corn, acorns, or chestnuts ; some other seeds too much 
comminuted to determine; numerous insect remains ; large quantity of 
gravel. 
4600. Male. Rockaway Beach, Long Island, N. Y. December 17, 1885. Jonathan 
Dwight, jr. 
Animal matter, 95 per cent.; vegetable, 0 ; gravel, etc., 5. Stomach nearly 
empty. 
Contents. —The animal matter of one or more shell-fish (apparently a mussel 
and a barnacle, as bits of shell belonging to these are also contained); a 
very little sand ; no insects. 
1269. Female. Washington, D. C. December 2, 1885; 4 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 1 per cent.; vegetable, 75 ; gravel, etc., 20; indeterminate, 4. 
Contents. —Fragments of 1 or 2 acorns or chestnuts ; large quantities of the 
“skin ” or hulls of grain, apparently of kernels of corn ; 30 seeds of poison 
ivy; large amount of sand and gravel; some vegetable fiber and mud; 
numerous but small fragments of the hard parts of insects. 
1297. Female. Washington, D. C. December 17, 1885; found dead. Dr. A. K. 
Fisher. 
Animal matter, 90 per cent.; vegetable, 2 ; gravel, etc., 8. Stomach about one- 
fourth full. 
Contents.— One cocoon of some insect, and 2 smaller cocoons, or egg-bags of 
spider; 12 or 15 small fragments of much-worn bone, perhaps taken as 
“gravel;” a few bits of vegetable membrane, apparently epidermis of 
some grain ; a very small amount of sand and gravel. 
1298. Washington, D. C. December 17, 1885; found wounded. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 5 per cent.; vegetable, 85 ; gravel, etc., 8; indeterminate, 2. 
Contents. —Remains of 3 or 4 kernels of corn and the hulls of many more ; 90 
to 100 seeds of common sumach, apparently Rhus glabra ; fragments of 
insects ; gravel and sand ; about 2 per cent of fine mud-like material, not 
determined. 
1299. Female. Washington, D. C. December 19, 1885 ; 4-5 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 1 per cent.; vegetable, 80; gravel, etc., 19. Stomach well 
filled. 
Contents. —Seven seeds of harmless sumach ; a large amount of vegetable mat¬ 
ter, part of which may be bits of corn, acorns, etc., but the bulk seems more 
like sea-weed ; a few fragments of the hard parts of insects ; a large amount 
of gravel and fine sand, with 2 or 3 bits of shell. 
1300. Male. Washington, D. C. December 19, 1885 ; 4-5 p. m. Dr. A. K. Fisher. 
Animal matter, 0 per cent. ; vegetable, 90; gravel, etc., 10. Stomach well 
filled. 
Contents.— Fragments of corn ; 75 seeds of poison ivy ; 60 seeds of common 
sumach and 1 seed of grape ; gravel and bits of coal and brick ; no insect 
remains. 
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