. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . s from the central United Statesto Panama. Haliits and economic status: The food ofthe mourning do\e is practically all vegetablematter (over 99 per cent), principally seeds ofplants, including grain. Wiieat, oats, rye, corn,barley, and buckwheat were found in i.^o outof 237 stomachs, ;md constituted ^2 per centof the food. Three-fourths of this was wastegrain picked up after harvest. The principaland almost constant diet is weed seeds, whichare eaten throughout the 3ear and constitute64 per cent of the entire food
. The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds . s from the central United Statesto Panama. Haliits and economic status: The food ofthe mourning do\e is practically all vegetablematter (over 99 per cent), principally seeds ofplants, including grain. Wiieat, oats, rye, corn,barley, and buckwheat were found in i.^o outof 237 stomachs, ;md constituted ^2 per centof the food. Three-fourths of this was wastegrain picked up after harvest. The principaland almost constant diet is weed seeds, whichare eaten throughout the 3ear and constitute64 per cent of the entire food. In one stomachwere found seeds of yellow wood sorrel,in .mother 6,400 seeds of barn grass or fox-tail, and in a third 2,600 seeds of slender pas-paluni, of orange hawkweed. 950 ofhoary \-er\-ain, 120 of Carolina cranesbill, 50 ofj-ellow wood sorrel, 620 of panic grass, and 40of various other weeds. None of these arcuseful, and most of them are troublesomeweeds. The drne di>es not eat insects or otheranimal food. It should be protected in everypi issible Photograph by Dr. C. \\il1mm D.\NDY AMONG BIRDS The Mexican mot-mot is perhaps the onl\- bird that mutilates its tail-feathers for pur-poses of decoration after they are full-grown. A jiortion of the shafts is denuded by thehird, lea\ing the web at the tifis to form a C(.inspicuous racket.
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