MASON AND tEtfnot. 295 



all sorts of miscellaneous food, such as water-mo llusca, frogs, 

 worms, insects. S. B. I. D. A., 136. 



Their food differs little from the mallard. F. I. IV, 438. 



Stom'ichs examined. 



12-1-08. A few small water snails ( Vivipara crassa ?}. 

 12-1-08. One small water snail, and some vegetable matter. 

 12-1-08. 1 Frog: 



3 Small snails. (Vivipara crassa ?). 



Some vegetable matter. 



1594. Eunetta falcata. Crested or Falcated Teal. 



Radde tells us " that the stomachs of some he shot on the 

 13th April just after their arrival, contained nothing but fragments 

 of quartz and a few shoots of plants." H. M. G. B. Ill, 232. 



Its diet seems to be principally, if not wholly, vegetarian. 

 S. B. I. D. A., 146. 



1595. Chaulelasmus streperus.- Gadwall. 



With us their chief staple food, so long as they can get it is 

 wild rice (though in some parts they feed in cultivated rice fields 

 largely), and later the seeds, leaves and flower buds of all kinds of 

 rushes and aquatic plants. Insects and their larvse are also largely 

 consumed, and sometimes small worms. H. M. G. B. Ill, 183. 



Food similar to the mallard. F. I. IV, 441. 



Almost entirely vegetable feeders, subsisting much on wild 

 and cultivated rice, water-weeds, &c., and seldom varying their 

 diet with animal food. A drake shot in Silchar was found to 

 contain a mass of small white worms in addition to some water 

 berries and half ripe rice. S. B. I. D. A., 151. 



(Domes at night in huge flights to feed on the weeds in the 

 nala. Punjab Gaz., Ludhiana, 15. 



1597. Nettium crecca. Common Teal. 



(Theobald). ' They feed mainly on the tender shoots of weeds 

 and grasses." " Their feeding places are always the swampy 

 margins and weedy shallows of broads or sluggish streams." 

 There they feed on wild rice, grasses of all kinds, and their 

 seeds, and all sorts of tender shoots, roots, conns, and bulbs, as 



