PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEXANDER WETMORE 
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0 v BS 19276.Ripened rice partly stripped by Pintails. (Sue Hero Rice) Bismark 
Harden ranch. Maxwell, Calif., Sept. 7, 1918. 
3 > BS 19281.....White pelican ( PelEcanus erythrorhynchos ). Maxwell, Calif., Sept. 8, 1918 
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grain is pulled down and flattened as the 
Destroy-ecT'rice in foreground^ Grain g^ySt uninjured in baeERTCund, 
Maxwell, Calif., Sept. 29, 1918. 
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6 'J 96^~192'&8»>»-*-v .’Scaffold 15 fa&t-liigh erected in ricefields as lookout post from which^o 
guard agaftist depredations of blackbirds. A^Wsrder, stationed here 
day Iwfig, armed with a>22 calibre rifle^^hoots into tn« rice undar any 
flo<<$ks of blackbirds thafs^ttempt to,**£lght. 100 acres orS*iee »^re 
icrded from this stand. Gr^diey^Calif•, Sept. 17, 1918. 
o V BS 19286.....Growing stand of rice (1600 variety) destroyed by Pintails. Seven 
Koreans were employed here to herd Blackbirds and ducks by shooting. 
Smitten-Pellenan Ranch, Gridley, Calif., Sept. 14, 1918. 
< MISS.Frightening ducks fjam r r if- f) fields by means of aerial bombs. 
sky at top. ^Ifa ^w ell. Ca lif.^ aB^pt. 5, 1 9 a^. 
o / BS 15758.....Old bed of Tulare Lake, Calif., reclaimed by levees and planted with 
wheat. Nov. 7, 1914. 
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6 ✓ BS 16270.Shore of a Bay on Woody Island, Lake Bowdoin, Montana. Many dead 
shorebirds and ducks found here. Oct. 4, 1915. 
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0 v BS 16269.....Pellets at edge of Great Blue Heron’s nest. Goose Island, Lake Bowdoin, 
Montana, Oct. 7, 1915. 
c BS 16271.Shore of Long Island, Lake Bowdoin, Montana, Oct. 7, 1915. 
O ^ BS 16272.Lake Bowdoin, Montana, from Long Island. Oct. 7, 1915. 
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