. The Game breeder . Fig 21—Coontail. A Compact Form. Marksville, La., from October to De-cember consisted of coontail, and asmany as 150 seeds were found in asingle stomach. Much more than theordinary proportion of stems and leavesof the plant were taken by these birds. Another illustration of foliage eatingis furnished by eight mallards and oneblack duck collected at Big Lake,Arkansas, in December, 1912. Morethan 85 per cent, of the food of themallards was made up of the foliage ofcoontail, with a few seeds, while 90 percent, of the black ducks food consistedexclusively of coontail foliage.

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. The Game breeder . Fig 21—Coontail. A Compact Form. Marksville, La., from October to De-cember consisted of coontail, and asmany as 150 seeds were found in asingle stomach. Much more than theordinary proportion of stems and leavesof the plant were taken by these birds. Another illustration of foliage eatingis furnished by eight mallards and oneblack duck collected at Big Lake,Arkansas, in December, 1912. Morethan 85 per cent, of the food of themallards was made up of the foliage ofcoontail, with a few seeds, while 90 percent, of the black ducks food consistedexclusively of coontail foliage. Sixty-four mallards collected at Me-nesha. Ark., in November and December,1909, had fed on coontail seeds to theextent of per cent, of their of the same species of duck,taken at Lake Wapanoca, Arkansas, in. November, 1910, had eaten enoughseeds, with a little foliage of coontail, toform on an average more than half oftheir food. The plant thus has considerable localvalue as a wild-duck food. However,its tendency to crowd out more desirablespecies makes transplanting unwise, un-less in particularly difficult cases whereother plants have failed. The very

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