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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Plate 95. 386 BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 4887. Cow^ewM.—Remains of oats (mainly the hulls); line grass and some other ' vegetable liber ; bones and nearly all the teeth of a lield-moiise (Ariicola riparias), forming about 25 per cent, of the ^hole stomach contents; about 30 per cent, of insect remains ; about 6 per cent, of fine " mud" not identilial)le. 4886. Young. Hillsborough, New Brunswick. July 15, 1886 ; 3 to 4 p. m. Jonathan Dwight, Jr. Animal matter, 10 per cent; vegetable, 45; gravel, etc., 45. Stomach nearlv empty. Contents.—nGma.\n9. of seeds and berries, two kinds of seeds not recognized • remains of insects ; 10 pebbles ; no sand. Male, young. Hillsborough, New Brunswick. July 16,1886; 8a. m., Jonathan Dwight, Jr. Animal matter, 35 per cent; vegetable, 65 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than half full. Contents.—A. piece of moss about half an inch long; hulls of five or six rasp- berries; seven seeds of red raspberry (Rubus strigosus^; remains of a large cutworm ; no gravel or sand. 4888. Female, young. Hillsborough, New Brunswick. July 16, 1886; 8 a. m. Jona- than Dwight, jr. Animal matter, 1 percent; vegetable, 99; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach less than half full. Contents.-HuUs and a few seeds of raspberry ; two small unknown pods not yet ripe ; twelve or fifteen very small seeds, possibly those of strawber- ries ; a single fragment of some beetle ; no gravel or sand. 4962. Male, immature. Hillsborough, New Brunswick. Julv29. 1886- 5pm Jonathan Dwight, Jr. Animal matter, 20 per cent; vegetable, 80; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach about half full. Contents.-A large amount of pulp and skins of some fruit not identified (the pulp looks like that of an early apple, but the skins are too thin); two stones of some species of I>t'unus, perhaps a beech plum ; remains of in- sects, mainly (?) beetles, but one large cutworm ; no gravel. Immature. Sing Sing, N. Y. September 18, 1885; 10 a. m. Dr. C. Hart Merriam. Animalmatter, 5 per cent; vegetable, 60; gravel, etc., 20; indeterminate, 15 Stomach well filled. Con<en<*-.-Twenty.two stones of wild cherry (Prunus serotina); 9 of cornel (Cor- nus sp. ?), and 3 unidentified ; also pulp of above berries; a few pieces of of what appears to be an acorn or chestnut; various hard parts of insecta 1540. Alfred Centre, N. Y. September 20, 1885 ; a. m. F. S. Place. Animal matter, 45 per cent; vegetable, 53; gravel, etc., 2. Stomach full. Contents.-Fragmontsof the meat" of some nut or large seed; pieces of acorns or chestnuts; numerous fragments of fruit pulp, probably apple; many insect remains (45 per cent); 5 small pebbles ; no sand. 154L Alfred Centre, N. Y. September 20, 1885; a. m. F. S. Place. Animal matter, 40 per cent; vegetable, 60 ; gravel, etc., 0. Stomach full. Contents.-^evon stones of wild cherry (I^unus serotina); 5 or 6 triangular seeds (ol Polygonum?) skins and other vegetable matter from both the preceding, and some long vegetable fiber from some other plant: numer- ous insect remains ; no sand or gravel. Male. Washington, D. C. September 7, 1886; 11 a. m. W. B. Harrows Animal matter, 0 per cent; vegetable, 70; gravel, etc., 5; indeterminate, 25. stomach almost empty. Contents.-One grape seed ; vegetable fiber finely divided ; 2 or 3 bits of sand and gravel; fine mud-like material, not identifiable; no insects. 735. 2239.
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1. White-throated Sparrow. 3. White-crowned Sfarrow. Males. 2. Towhee. 4, Water Thrush. I COLOR PLATE

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