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arable surface, as if for the purpose of drinking, but on closer observation 

 seeds of various* species of grass and weeds were noticeable, floating like a 

 sort of scum on the margin of the little pools. These seeds, which the 

 buntings go in quest of, were undoubtedly the objects that attracted the 

 birds here on the occasion referred to. 



* The seeds of panicum crus galli, setaria glauca, cbenopodium album, and of 

 plantago major, are, on dissection, sometimes found iu the c-op of these birds. 



