Doliohonyx orvz ivorus. 
Concord, 
1893. 
Aug. 14. 
Aug. 25. 
Eating wild rice. 
Yesterday I watched sone Bohol inks working at the wila 
rice. They were eating the grain -which, on examination, I 
found soft and milky and barely half grown . The bird would 
select a stalk that had been bent down by the wind or rain 
and perching directly beneath its head on some stout upright 
stem would reach up and pick out grain after grain without 
moving its foothold. Thus they worked busily but with great 
deliberation and for the most part in. perfect silence but oc- 
casionally the chink call would be given and answered by 
scattered birds. They were difficult to see among the grow- 
ing reeds. Once I thought I detected a bitd eating the with- 
ered at.arni na.te flowers of the Zizania but I may have been de- 
ceived. I am very sure, however, that both Bobolinks and 
Red-wings eat these flowers early in the season before the 
grain has formed. 
A flock of Blackbirds feeding in the wild rice at Beaver 
Bam Rapid, comprised fully fifty birds and I heard and saw 
others elsewhere. If any adult males remain here they are 
indistinguishable now from the females aiia young. 
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