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seeds of this plant to constitute more eron, La., over 75 per cent, of the diet 

 than 10 per cent, of the food of the 41 of a collection of 50 ducks of the same 



Fig. it. — Part of fruiting head of wild millet. (Natural size.) 



mallards collected; at Belle Isle, La., it species. Pintails, teal, and other shoal- 

 made up more than half of the food of water ducks are almost equally fond of 

 the few mallards examined, and at Cam- it. Geese eat the stems and leaves of the 



