. The birds of Wyoming . ICTERUS BULLOCKI. Bullocks Oriole, cf ¥ 0. o u OE g I I The Birds of Wyoming. lil ly different from that of the people of the South Atlanticcoast. In the rice growing districts there is no question butwhat they often seriously injure a crop and for that reasonthey are the despised bird of that region, where they areslaughtered by the thousands, and still they annoy the ricegrower and many claim that they destroy as high as five bushelsof rice per acre each season. Unquestionably they wage a serious war upon the ricegrower and can truly be considered his worst en
. The birds of Wyoming . ICTERUS BULLOCKI. Bullocks Oriole, cf ¥ 0. o u OE g I I The Birds of Wyoming. lil ly different from that of the people of the South Atlanticcoast. In the rice growing districts there is no question butwhat they often seriously injure a crop and for that reasonthey are the despised bird of that region, where they areslaughtered by the thousands, and still they annoy the ricegrower and many claim that they destroy as high as five bushelsof rice per acre each season. Unquestionably they wage a serious war upon the ricegrower and can truly be considered his worst enemy. In Wyo-ming their food is almost entirely weed seeds and insects andno oiie thinks, of them as a detrimental species, but all favortheir existence. Both Drexel and McCarthy reported thisspecies from Fort Bridger; Williston reports a single speci-men at Lake Como; Bond notes that the bobolinks are not un-common at Cheyenne, that he has taken them yearly for sev-eral years and sometimes within the city limits; Jesurun findsthem quite common at Douglas; Hayden repo
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