. Agricultural zoology. Zoology. 60 ZOOLOGY. along its entire upper side. Nowhere in large numbers. Food, Benefit conferred, and Damage done. Eavens, and sometimes even rooks, attack lambs and sick sheep, also ducks, geese, fowls, and pigeons. Carrion crows and hooded crows rarely attack our domestic animals. All cro\TO, however, steal the eggs of our poultry. They also injure sport, since they ki^Jhares and rabbits, young fawns, quails, pheasSits, etc. They do a little good, however, by devouring field- voles, but, as a rule, only catch the sick ones which are not able to move quickly. They d
. Agricultural zoology. Zoology. 60 ZOOLOGY. along its entire upper side. Nowhere in large numbers. Food, Benefit conferred, and Damage done. Eavens, and sometimes even rooks, attack lambs and sick sheep, also ducks, geese, fowls, and pigeons. Carrion crows and hooded crows rarely attack our domestic animals. All cro\TO, however, steal the eggs of our poultry. They also injure sport, since they ki^Jhares and rabbits, young fawns, quails, pheasSits, etc. They do a little good, however, by devouring field- voles, but, as a rule, only catch the sick ones which are not able to move quickly. They do harm by. Fig. 36.—Head of Book (Corvus frugilegui). destroying useful insect-eating birds, also eating their eggs and young. But as insect-eaters, they are extremely useful; they devour cockchafers, wire- worms, butterflies, surface caterpillars, crane flies and their larvse, and field snails; also many earthworms. As to the vegetable part of their food, they devour, in the first place, germinating seeds; grain, peas, beans. They also pick grain from the ear, both when ripe and, to a larger extent, when still soft; and in doing this puU down the ear so as to crack the stalk, thus causing more damage than by the mere eating. They also plunder the ripening peas, and feast upon. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bos, Jan Ritzema, 1850-1928; Ainsworth Davis, J. R. (James Richard), 1861-1934. London, Chapman & Hall, Ld.
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