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jleo*mber 16>22, 1917 • 
i^jtuttgart i> 6 > 0 . 16-10* Uavltt D«o. 19-22)* 
birds* 
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Abundant* Hsllards vors sdsn oonstantlj whlld in ths fiold. At 
Stattqart one single bird and a flock of tO wore soon froa the hotel win- 
dow in town on jJoc. 16* On the following day in the country about 5000 
bird 3 were seen, most of thm in snail flocks flying north* One flock of 
about 000 individuala was found feeding in rice stubble. Hear Dewitt on 
Deoeabor 19 about 2000 wore seen during the afternoon* part flying higji 
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in the air and port feeding in the rice fields. On Tiec* 20 a. few were 
flushed along Little lAgroe bayou* Deaemoer 22 in the morning it turned 
ooldor and for un hour (between 7 and 8) there «as a steady flight of 
kallards pcs&ing south orer the tovn. ilnllards have done considerable 
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dansg^ to rice in the shock here in the p&st stonth* kany birds taat nad 
been killed ty huntera were exanincd. 
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One seen near btattgart Ceeo'aber 17 and another at Jewitt Dec* 19. 
In both oases the birds ware aalos and were feeding iu rice fields.lti 
eomxsuay with Mallards* 
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Felrly eoswion* flocks seen near Stuttgart Dec* 17 and 16* 
Qollinus_ tirglnlanns* 
Uany killed hy hnntero* One ssiall flook seen near Stuttgart* Deo* 
17* Birds killed at both Stuttgart and Dewitt werw examined* 
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yyapaimehus anericanns* 
A few are said to occur in faworable locnlities near Dewitt* Bone 
seen* 
