Table 127 
FOODS OF 7 LESSER SCAUP FROM SALT ESTUARINE BAYS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY? 


Leaves, Stems and Rootstalks of 

Submerged Aquatic Plants 43% ( 9-82) 
Eelgrass 43 (9-82) 
Seeds 24 ( +-58) 
' Widgeongrass Lh ( +58) 
Olney Three-square 1h ( +58) 
Grain (bait) 57% (18-91) 
Com 7 57 (18-91) 
Animal Food 100% (59-100) 
Bittium sp. (Gastropoda) 57 (18-91) 
Mitrella lunata (Gastropoda) 1h ( ++58) 
Mulinia lateralis (Pelecypoda) 1h ( +58) 
Odostomia impressa (Gastropoda) lh ( +=58) 
Tlyanassa obsoleta (Gastropoda) Lh ( +58) 
Gemma gemma (Pelecypoda) 1h ( +-58) 
Triphora perversa (Gastropoda) 1h ( +58) 
Acteocina canaliculata (Gastropoda) Th ( +58) 
Rissoidae (sp.?) | 1h ( +58) 
Pelecypoda (sp.?) 1 ( +58) 
Gammaridae (sp.?) 1k ( +-58) 
1 Collected November 18-February 19. Percentage occurrence of foods that 
made up 5% or more of the volume in individual birds. Figures in parentheses 
show 95% confidence limits. 
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