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white-tailed ptarmigan, Richardson's grouse; composed 2.4 percent of fail food 
of prairie chicken in V/isconsin ; composed 7.6 percent of winter food of 
northern sharp-tailed grouse in Ontario and Quebec ; Coeur d'Alene chipmunk, 
red fox, plains white-tailed deer, opossum, white-tailed deer; composed 0.56 
percent of fruit food of eastern skunk in Michigan. Observations (in addition 
to specific records) : Thirty-five species of birds including ruffed, and spruce 
grouse, ptarmigan, an important food of ring-necked pheasant; ranked with 
Gai/lussacia as twenty-ninth on the list of quail food plants of the Southeast ; 
emergency food of prairie sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge ; southern 
white-tailed deer, ptarmigan; skunk; much browsed by moose; much eaten 
by red fox; rarely eaten by coyote; relished by Olympic wapiti, Columbian 
black-tailed deer, Douglas squirrel, Allen's chipmunk. Pacific mountain beaver, 
Oregon gray fox, California skunk, Olympic black bear, Virginia opossum; 
heavily browsed by Rocky Mountain snowshoe rabbit; lesser Colorado chip- 
munk, Virginia opossum ; heavily browsed by white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbit ; 
much eaten by raccoon ; alpine chipmunk, ring-tailed cat. 
Vaceinium amoenum, see Vacciniiim corymhosum. 
Vaceinlum angustifolium Ait. Lowbiish blueberry. 
F. dohdinii Burn., V. nigrum Britt., V. pennsylvanicuni Lam., not Miller, 
Gyanococctis pemisylvanicus (Lam.) Rydb., G. angustifolius (Alt.) Rvdb, 
Range: 22, 23, 24, 26, 27. 
Site : Dry, well-drained, sun, shade. 
Fruit: Berry, available July-September. 
A small shrub, flowers April-June ; occurs in sandy and other soils ; spreads 
by underground stems ; commonly the earliest ripening blueberry. 
Stomach records: Six species of birds, including ruffed grouse, bobwhite, and 
greater prairie chicken. Observations: Ruffed grouse, bobwhite. Without 
forage significance for livestock. 
YaGcinium arboreum Marsh. Tree huckleberry. 
Batodendron- arboreiim (Marsh.) Nutt. 
Range : 17, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 80. 
Site: Dry, well-drained, sun, shade. 
Fruit : Berry, available, September-November. 
A large shrub to small or large tree; evergreen southward; flowers May- 
August ; occurs in sandy and other soils ; the only species of the genus and one 
of the two in the heath family supposedly capable of growing in neutral or 
slightly alkaline soil. 
Stomach records: Bobwhite. Observations: Mockingbird. 
Yaccinium atrocoecum (Gray) Heller. Black blueberry. 
V. corymbosiim atrococcum Gray, Cyanococcus atrococcus (Gray) Small. 
Range : 24, 26, 27, 29. 
Site: Dry, well-drained, moist, sun, shade. 
Fruit: Berry, available July-August. 
A small to large, spreading shrub ; flowers May-June. 
Vacciniiim brachycerum, see Gaylussacia brachycera. 
Vaceinium caesariense Mack. 
Range: 28. 
Site: Well-drained, moist, sun. 
Fruit: Berry. 
A small to large shrub ; flowers in May. 
K"ew Jersey blueberry. 
Vaceinium caesium Greene. 
Polycodium caesium Greene, P. -floridanum (Nutt.) Greene. 
Range: 29, SO. 
Site : Well-drained, sun. 
Fruit: Berry. 
A small, irregularly branched shrub. 
7accinium caespitosnm Michx. Dwarf bilberry. 
Range : 4, 7, 12, 13, 23, 24, 26, 27. 
Site: Dry, well-drained, sun. 
Fruit : Berry, available June-September. 
A small shrub: flowers June-July. Without value as forage for livestock. 
