U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



BULLETIN 186 PLATE 3 



RlCEFIELDS. 



A, Setting out the young plants; at this season almost no birds are seen in the fields. B, 

 Standing rice, haunt of bitterns, rails, and prinias. C, Stubble, with garden bamboo to 

 the right, fa daeng to the left; at such places munias glean in flocks of hundreds. 



