. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14 BULLETIN 205, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. duck and wild celery. So far as investigations of the food of the biant are concerned the published record is thoroughly substanti- ated. All normal stomach contents of the common brant thus far examined consisted exclusively of eel-grass. Other salt-water fowl also feed on eel-grass; as the surf and white-winged scoters. Six birds of the latter species collected at Netarts Bay, Oregon, had made 43 per cent of their last meal of it. The list of other ducks feeding on th
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14 BULLETIN 205, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. duck and wild celery. So far as investigations of the food of the biant are concerned the published record is thoroughly substanti- ated. All normal stomach contents of the common brant thus far examined consisted exclusively of eel-grass. Other salt-water fowl also feed on eel-grass; as the surf and white-winged scoters. Six birds of the latter species collected at Netarts Bay, Oregon, had made 43 per cent of their last meal of it. The list of other ducks feeding on the plant includes the golden-eye, old squaw, bufflehead, mallard, and black duck, the last-named species sometimes devouring the seeds of. Fig. 12.—Range of swamp privet. eel-grass in large numbers. The stomachs of 5 black ducks collected at Amityville, Long Island, N. Y., in October and November, contained on the average more than 66 per cent of eel-grass seeds, the number of seeds per stomach varying from 700 to 4,000. Eleven birds taken at Scarboro, Me., during the same months had efiten enough eel-grass seeds to make up 51 per cent of their food. In three cases fully 2,000 seeds had been taken. Thirteen ducks of the same species collected in Massachusetts in January and February had taken eel-grass, including both seeds and leaves, to the extent of more. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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