13 
Mollusks. 
Seeds and 
Cray-fish, 
Cray-fish, 
_ _ 622 
_90. 
winged Teal— Querquedula caroUnensis. 
No. specimens, 9. Locusts and other insects, 42. 
(One-sixth locusts.) 
Summer Duck Aix sponsa- . . qq 
No. specimens, 9. Locusts and other insects o9. 
Mollusks. (One-third locusts.) 
White Pelican —Pelecanus trachryrynchus. 
No. specimens, 5. Locusts and other insects, 41. 
fish and frogs. (One-halt Locusts.) 
Pina-hilled Gull— Larus Delewarensis. 
No specimens, 6. Locusts and other insects, 25. Frogs, Cray- 
fish Fish. (One-third Locusts.). 
Franklin’s Rosy Gull— Larus Franklinii. # 
No. specimens, 10. Locusts and other insects, 3^. 
Fish and Frogs. (Two-thirds Locusts.) 
Lea NJ e sp7cfmen a s,T"tocutts and other insects, 3-5. Crayfish, 
Fish and Frogs. (One-half Locusts.) 
«*• S “ ils ’ *'”■ 
(Two-thirds Locusts.) 
Total number of specimens- 
Number of species- 
T Pave made it a point to communicate freely during the season, 
and whe^ver occasion required, to our agricultural papers, in refer- 
, nr.h in^pefs as have come prominently into notice duung the 
ence to a7,nda7for inTries. I have also endeavored to an- 
EHb sroS RSKl® 
rxamina^cm^M^e^subjec^wh^^cimld not S .^^ r t ^ se be i " duCed t0 
nttonfinn tn «nph diminutive obiects as insects. . , 
Pa l s illustrating the immense loss sometimes occasioned m a single 
. ^ rviimiti vp r>psts X here present some statistics in iefer- 
ence to their injuries in 1874, which were originally prepared for a 
lecture to the Illinois State Horticultural Society, which are in a form 
to be easily understood and which are calculated to startle our farmers 
bv their magnitude. has been selected, as it sustained 
, , \ \ ‘ ’ vear 1874 was very dry, and crops suffered very mate 
Hallvon this account I have endeavored to eliminate this factor by se¬ 
rially on thm account, _ wh ; ch though suffering from drouth, were 
not materially affected by chinch-bugs or grasshoppers,-as a.means 
of comparison. The erofi estimates are from the reports of the U. S. 
Agricultural Department for the years mentioned. 
