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considerable number of kernels estimated. Though more red rice may have been represented in the ground up fragments in these stomachs there was nothing present to indicate that this was really the case.

The other food formed in the stomachs of these blackbirds was made up largely of grass and sedge seeds with a very small percentage of animal matter. The Bronzed Grackle had taken 80 seeds of Poison Ivy. Two of the Rusty Blackbirds had eaten oats in addition to rice but this may possibly have been waste grain from horse droppings. All of the rice eaten had been hulled, though many bits of hulls had been swallowed by the Rusty Blackbirds and the Bronzed Grackle. Seemingly these two species were non so expert at handling these seeds as the Red-winged Blackbirds and Cowbirds as in the stomach of these latter species very few remains of the rough hulls covering the rice kernels were found.

DAMAGE FROM OTHER SOURCES.

English Sparrows ([[underlined]]Passer domesticus[[/underlined]]) were common about the towns visited and many were found about farm houses scatted through the country. Come complaint was directed against these birds but most of the rice growers had paid little attention to them. He E. Crill of Gillett said that this year English Sparrows had destroyed the rice in an area of about five acres in a field farmed by him. This small area matured more rapidly than the surrounding grain and the sparrows fed in it while it was in the milk destroying the entire yield.

Some stated that the common rat did damage to stored rice and frequently was a serious pest. The greatest damage came when the rats attacked grain in sacks and cut the sacks so that the leakage interfered with handling.