CHAPTER: 2VI- 
ENEMIES OF SEEDS, BULBS, ROOTLETS AND 
FLOWERS. 
Fulica Americana—Coor or Mup Hen :—Eats shoots 
and rootlets of teal grass, destroys large quantities 
by diving to the bottom and rooting it up, bulbs 
or tubers of lotus and lily with their shoots, wild 
rice and celery shoots, water-pepper, smartweed, 
GEG. 
Tonornis Martinica—PurPLE GALLINULE, Gallinula 
galeata—FLoriIpA GALLINULE:—Eat shoots and 
tubers; the bloom of wild rice, duck and pond 
weeds, teal moss, flag's, etc. 
Porzana Jamaicensis—BLACK RAIL; Porsana Novebor- 
acensis—YELLOW Rait; Porzana  Carolina— 
CAROLINA RAtL:—Eat teal grass, duck and pond 
weed and shoots, wild rice, wild barley and oats, 
etc. 
Ectopistes Migratorius—PAssENGER PIGEON; Chame- 
pelia Passerina—GrounpD Dove; Melopelia Leu- 
coptera—W HITEWINGED Dove; Zenaidura Caro- 
linensis—CaAROLINA Dove:—Eat wild rice, barley 
and oats. 
Dolychonyx orysivorus—Boso.ink, Rice Brrp :—Eats 
wild and tame rice, barley and oats. 
Xanthocephalus  Icterocephalus — YELLOW-HEADED 
BLacksirpD; Ageleus Phaeniceus — REDWINGED 
BiacksirD; Scolecophagus ferrugineus—RUSTY 
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