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29. Fifty-day-old King Rail with juvenal plumage nearly com- 



plete 71 



30. Captive King and Clapper Rails at Patuxent Wildlife Research 



Center, Laurel, Md 74 



31. Foods of the King Rail in a brackish bay marsh, Kent County, 



Del 77 



32. Regurgitated King Rail pellets from Dorchester County, Md__ 82 



33. Method of hunting railbirds in Patuxent River wildrice marshes, 



Maryland 91 



34. Railbird boats tied up after the hunting season 92 



35. Method of hunting railbirds in southern ricefields 94 



36. Allrpurpose or cloverleaf trap and drift fence in shrub swamp 



at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 104 



37. All-purpose or cloverleaf trap 104 



Photographs are by the author unless otherwise credited. 



