. 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 . Unios or fresh-water clams to mostother foods. Thirteen Massachusetts specimens were foimdto have eaten nearly ninety-five per cent, of mussels; theremaining five per cent, of the stomach contents was composedof starfish and periwi
. 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 . Unios or fresh-water clams to mostother foods. Thirteen Massachusetts specimens were foimdto have eaten nearly ninety-five per cent, of mussels; theremaining five per cent, of the stomach contents was composedof starfish and periwinkles. It is a common belief that allScoters feed entirely upon animal food, but this is not a the Atlantic coast they appear to subsist mostly onmarine animals, but, in the interior, vegetable food also istaken. Mr. W. L. McAtee found the Scoters in a Wisconsinlake living almost exclusively for a time on the wild celery,but he does not state definitely what species of Scoter wasrepresented there. ^ * McAtee, W, L.: Three Important Wild Duck Foods, Bureau of Biol. Circular No. 81. 160 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. WHITE-WINGED SCOTER {Oidemia deglandi). Common or local names: Male: Black White-wing. Female and young: Gray White-wing. Both sexes: White-winged Coot; May White-wing; Eastern White-wing;Pied-winged Coot; Uncle Sam Female. Male. Length. — to inches. Adult Male. — Small patch below and behind eye, and wing patch white; rest ofplumage black or brownish black; iris white; bill pinkish purple, reddish,orange, black and white; feet orange red or coral red and wine purple. Adult Female. — Sides of head more or less flecked with whitish; wingpatch white; rest of upper parts sooty brown or dirty gray; belowgrayish brown; iris deep brown; bill grayish black; feet brownish ^ states that the adult female has a pink patch on the side ofbill, but other authors disagree. Young. — Similar, but no pink on bill; sides
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