. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . ht boat do theplanting, while another man in the stern furnishes the pro-pelling power. With these tongs he says they can readilypush the roots into the soft muddy bottom, in four or five feetof water, where they could not be so we


. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . ht boat do theplanting, while another man in the stern furnishes the pro-pelling power. With these tongs he says they can readilypush the roots into the soft muddy bottom, in four or five feetof water, where they could not be so well planted by are put up for guides, and the planting of the bottomis thoroughly done. It proved abundantly productive, andproduced, he says, thousands of tons of these valuable has been successful in planting the sago pondweed {Pota-mogeton pectinatus) in the same manner. Ducks appear to be fond of all pondweeds, and any pond-weed would be a valuable attraction to any duck pond. Thereare no less than thirty-eight species of pondweeds of the genusPotamogeton in the United States, of which at least nine (seeFig. 25, and Plates XXXIV, XXXV) are distributed almostuniversally. The seed of a plant called widgeon grass by CapeCod gunners has been identified for me by Mr. W. L. McAteeof the Biological Survey as that of Potamogeton


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