One of the most significant facts in connection with 
this survey is the tee ty in numbers of the animals killed 
each year. It is also evident that most of them are killed from 
April to October. The length of time a body remains on the high- 
way was found to be rarely more than three days. In most cases 
it does not remain more than a day but occasionally may become 
stuck to the highway and stay there a week or more, 
A familiar sight is one or more crows feeding on 
carcasses, either in the road or at the side to which they have 
dragged them. As they feed mostly in early morning few animals 
had been removed by them before the counts were made, 
The only game animal killed in any number is the 
rabbit. The killing of cats is to be regarded generally as 
beneficial since they are notorious destroyers of birds and small 
game. Song and insect-eating birds are not appreciably reduced 
by the automobile. Blackbirds, cats, gophers, mice, rats and 
sparrows, all undesirable, comprise 68.4 per cent of the animals 
found dead on the highway during these three years. 
It is to be acknowledged that the data give a very local 
picture, but it is considered to be typical of the region, The 
faunal change would vary with latitude and topography, but there 
is reason to believe that the effect of the automobile on our 
wild life is much less detrimental than formerly supposed, 
Dr. M. D. Farrar, research entomologist, and Mrs. Flint 
assisted in collecting the data, 
