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GAME BIRDS. WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. 



Wild rice grows naturally from northern Lake Winnipeg 

 to middle Florida and from northern New Brunswick to the 

 Gulf coast in eastern Texas. It does not grow in every suit- 

 able place within its range, but in most cases it may be made to 



Fig. 22. — Wild rice. (From Circular No. 81, Bureau of Biological Survey, United States 

 Department of Agriculture.) 



do so by transplanting. It was transplanted often by Indian 

 tribes, who used it as food. It usually will not succeed in 

 small stagnant ponds or in the margins of swift running 

 streams, but is readily established along the borders of marshy 

 streams where the current is slow, and in large ponds where 

 there is a slight current. It thrives best on a mud bottom, 



