. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. 22 BOB-WHITE OR QUAIL Normal Food: The bob-white in winter lives almost altogether upon weed seeds, grass seed, dried berries such as can be found in the open or along fence rows, and upon waste grain. Very little in- sect food is consumed during winter. Stomachs of winter specimens taken in Pennsylvania contained over 75% of weed seeds. Prominent among the species represented was the wild lupine. Food at Shelters: Commercial scratch feed, good screenings, commercial chick feed, wheat, oats, rye, barley, broom corn, mill
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. 22 BOB-WHITE OR QUAIL Normal Food: The bob-white in winter lives almost altogether upon weed seeds, grass seed, dried berries such as can be found in the open or along fence rows, and upon waste grain. Very little in- sect food is consumed during winter. Stomachs of winter specimens taken in Pennsylvania contained over 75% of weed seeds. Prominent among the species represented was the wild lupine. Food at Shelters: Commercial scratch feed, good screenings, commercial chick feed, wheat, oats, rye, barley, broom corn, millet and sunflower Photograph by Game Commissioner Ross L. Leffler, McKeesport. Fig. 10. A FEEDING-SHELTER FOR BOB-WHITES BUILT BY BOY SCOUTS HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE Normal Food: Tliis bird of the open field lives upon weed and grass seed almost exclusively during the winter. Since the birds inhabit only the wide treeless fields, they exist chiefly upon the seeds of plants which grow strictly in the open. Food at Shelters: Commercial scratch feed, good screenings, commercial chick feed, wheat, oats, rye, barley, broom corn, millet and sunflower seed. 23 RUFFED GROUSE Normal Food: The grouse eats many different forms of winter food. It eats the buds and terminal twigs of birch, aspen, poplar, fire cherry, apple, hawi^horn, and wild rose; occasionally it eats the buds and leaves of the hemlock. It is very fond of berries and pulpy fruits which can be found above the snow. Among them are huckle- berries, winter-green berries, fruit of the jack-in-the-pulpit, redhaws, rose hips, black haws, and apples. They often eat leaves of the winter-green berry and laurel during Avinter. On the ground they occasionally find weed seeds, small acorns and beech nuts and at the edge of the woodland the fruit of bitter-sweet, Avild grapes and Vir- ginia creeper. Grouse do not often feed upon w^aste grain because they do not come into the open as a Please note that these images are extracted
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