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Title: Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations
Identifier: commercialpoultr11 (find matches)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Warren, Benjamin Harry, 1858-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Harrisburg : E. K. Meyers, State Printer
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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370 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVAXIA. thfroT ""*' "'"^ ^""' "â¢""* "°⢠^"' ""^ ""'""' '""â P"'" *han to get the kernel at The clepredatioâa of tl.e coi.,.nân crow do not cease, except temporarily, when the young plants are too well rooted to be pnlled with ea.se. After tl.e ears are (on, ed and the kerneN well filled out the crow again visits the corn-fields, and son.eti es does sermons dan.age. At that tin.e the young are as iarge as tl,eirâarents "everal lannhes are ,.oâ,â,only ass,K=iated in a flock, and such a party is capaWe of alar^o au.ouut ot nnschief in a con.paratively short titnc. Abou fifty con.plui.Hsoftniufv b:;n':riâ¢;."' ""^z'" "'^' """â """'""'"-' --â¢--â ''^'p-'^nVtn!'"',"^ Injury to Other Cereals than Oobn. .hll""""* "'VT «tto<^ksand injures other grains than corn its depredations on hese crops are far ess general and serious. About fifty reports of such iniu yha"" been rece.ved, the losses con,plaine<i of relating to wheat, rye, oats, barley ui rfco AS with corn, the greatest datnage is done by pulling up thl, sprouting grl^n bu; more or less is eaten while ripening, or even when hard. ' DA.MAGE TO Other Crop.s. About a dozen reports, nearly all from New England and Canada, mention the erowasdestructn-e to potatoes, the worst .nischief .,eing done bv ^uTingu" â young plants â â order to get the partly decayed pieces planted as "seed." Occasion ally sweet potatoes and beans are pulled up in the same way, and in ronie of tl e southern states the crow digs up peanuts, both a, see<l and when npeZg some imes causing considerable loss. The following notes from correspondents utustrato this class ol injuries : ^"t» musiraie FromS. F. Cheney, Grand Manan, New Brunswick ⢠J^he crow wil, take the potato seed out of the hill and pull up the potatoes when nearly ready From Manly Hardy, Brewer, Me.: I have known newly planted potatoes to be destroyed by'the aero Have oniv kn^^, to attack potatoes within a few years (1885.) â¢' ^ ""^" ^"^^ From CJjarles F. Goodhue, Webster, N H ⢠From Walter Hoxie, Frogmore, S. C ⢠^ ri:::::7Jz:n^^!""- '-^ "'â¢"'""^-- -'- --o-»<» y^ -- «estrâct,ve., From John M. Richardson, Daintrerticld Tox ⢠that at one imc, on his tarm at Genoa, Kans., he was obliged to ^verTo^^ o" ports of similar damage have been received from Georiria and South r , to the garden unless the display is par.ic.larrtempting! " " ""'""'"" From the fact that crows feed largely on wiid grapes, Tt seems a little strange that Plate 91.
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1. Crested Fljcatcber. 2. Pb(Bbe. 3. Wood Pewee. 4, Acadian Flycatcher. Males. COLOR PLATE

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