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North. The resident form of the Red-winged Blackbird is the Vera Cruz Red-Wing ([[underlined]] Agelaius phoeniceus richmondi [[/underlined]]). This form is represented among the birds that I collected and in addition specimens of the Eastern Red-wing ([[underlined]] Agelaius p. predatorius [[/underlined]]) and Thick-billed Red-wing ([[underlined]] Agelaius p. fortis [[/underlined]]) were taken. The two latter forms are migrants that had come in from the North.

Large flocks of Blackbirds were feeding in rice stubble in the region under consideration. Many were seen near Eagle Lake, El Campo and Wharton but on the whole the birds seemed more abundant in Matagorda County. These birds were feeding upon waste rice and upon various seeds that were found in the rice stubble. In cleaning up the red rice and waste rice Blackbirds must do a certain amount of good as this aids in preventing growths of volunteer rice (which are always worthless) in the following year. As the fields are dry here save when irrigated it is a common practice to turn hogs in on the stubble to feed on the waste grain. Some growers complained that the blackbirds destroyed waste grain that otherwise would have been eaten by hogs and so turned into profit. This complaint however does not seem valid as there is enough waste grain for both, and hogs are not able to clean up the rice thoroughly where it is widely scattered. The practice of feeding hogs in this manner is not universal and destruction of blackbirds to prevent their feeding in the stubble [[strikethrough]] in this manner [[/strikethrough]] seemingly would not be justified.

To ascertain in a general way to what extent blackbirds were feeding on waste rice 27 blackbirds of four species were collected and their stomachs and crops preserved. On subsequent examination it was found that rice had been eaten by twenty-four of the individuals taken. In the