Rod and gun . n thesimilar families found in fresh dissection we find the stomachs ofthe bluebills filled with a thin frondedgrass, the bulb of which closely re-sembles the wild celery, but the bulbis coarse to the taste and bears astrong garlic-like flavor. It is alsomuch larger than the celery. Whenthis is not obtainable the ducks feedupon dulse, Irish moss, green laver— and we are sorry to say—fish. Intonearly all of the larger harbors of thecoast fresh water rivers we find great flocks of the blue-bills greedily feeding on all manner ofsmall fishes. Did the list end h
Rod and gun . n thesimilar families found in fresh dissection we find the stomachs ofthe bluebills filled with a thin frondedgrass, the bulb of which closely re-sembles the wild celery, but the bulbis coarse to the taste and bears astrong garlic-like flavor. It is alsomuch larger than the celery. Whenthis is not obtainable the ducks feedupon dulse, Irish moss, green laver— and we are sorry to say—fish. Intonearly all of the larger harbors of thecoast fresh water rivers we find great flocks of the blue-bills greedily feeding on all manner ofsmall fishes. Did the list end here wewould be satisfied, but alas! they eatof the remains of the spawning sal-mon, thus they are, during the latefall months in those localities, totallyunfit for the table. At all other timesof the year the bird, on the salt water,ranks low as an edible bird. This isnot the case where they are taken infresh water. We have killed them inthe Northwestern and Central Pro-vinces of Canada, in the Western and. Bluebills—Duck and Drake Bluebills Flying 338 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA
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