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This list compiled by us from data obtained from bulletins published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau 
of Biological Survey, Washington, combined with knowledge gained by the examination of the contents of stomachs of wild water- 
taken from different sections of U. S. and Canada. 
fowl, 
9% 
9% 
Aquatic Plants and Percentage of Each Eaten by the Best Known Wild Waterfowl 
MALLARD 
of Food Animal 
of Food Vegetation 
Wampee 
Grasses 
Wild Rice 
Wild Millet 
Smartweeds 
Duck Wheat 
Pondweeds 
Sago Pond Plant 
Naias 
Redhead Grass 
Brownleaf 
Eel Grass 
Wigeongrass 
Duckweeds 
Duck Meat 
Coontail 
Wild Celery 
Hackberries 
Wapato and Delta 
Duck Potatoes 
Acorns 
Waterlily 
Banana “ 
Yellow “ 
American Lotus 
Water Milfoil 
Muskgrass 
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13% 
87% 
PINTAIL 
Known as Sprig 
of Food Animal 
of Food Vegetation 
Pondweeds 
Brownleaf 
Redhead Grass 
Sago Pond Plant 
Eel Grass 
Wigeongrass 
Naias 
Sedges 
Bulrush 
Three Square Rush 
Chufa 
Wampee 
Grasses 
Wild Rice 
Wild Millet 
Smartweeds 
Duck Wheat 
Muskgrass 
Delta and Wapato 
Duck Potato 
Waterlily 
Banana “ 
Yellow “ 
Wokas 
American Lotus 
Duckweeds 
Milfoil 
Wild Celery 
Unidentified and 
Miscellaneous 
15% 
85% of Food Vegetation 
31% 
15% 
9% 
7% 
5% 
4% 
47 
4% 
2% 
BLUEBILL 
of Food Animal 
Wild Celery 
Pondweeds 
Sago Pond Plant 
Naias 
Redhead Grass 
Brownleaf 
Eel Grass 
Wigeongrass 
Muskgrass 
Wapato and Delta 
Duck Potato 
Duckweeds 
Coontail 
Grasses 
Wild Rice 
Wild Millet 
Sedges 
Cyperus 
Rushes 
Burreed 
Chufa 
Wampee 
Waterlily 
Banana “ 
Yellow “ 
W okas 
American Lotus 
1% Water Milfoil 
3% 
Unidentified and 
Miscellaneous 
REDHEAD 
14% of Food Animal 
86% of Food Vegetation 
30% 
Wild Celery 
17% Pondweeds 
9% 
5% 
5% 
6% 
6% 
4% 
1% 
1% 
16% 
Sago Pend Plant 
Naias 
Redhead Grass 
Brownleaf 
Eel Grass 
Wigeongrass 
Wapato and Delta 
Duck Potato 
Duckweeds 
Muskgrass 
Grasses 
Wild Rice 
Wild Millet 
Sedges 
Cyperus 
Rushes 
Burreed 
Wampee 
Waterlily 
Banana “‘ 
Yellow “ 
Wokas 
American Lotus 
Water Milfoil 
Coontail 
Unidentified and 
Miscellaneous 
TEAL Blue-Winged 
27% 
73% of Food Vegetation 
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22% 
16% 
1% 
1% 
47% 
of Food Animal 
Sedges 
Cyperus 
Rushes 
Chufa 
Wampee 
Pondweeds 
Sago Pond Plant 
Naias 
Redhead Grass 
Brownleaf 
Eel Grass 
Wigeongrass 
Grasses 
Wild Rice 
Wild Millet 
Smartweeds 
Duck Wheat 
Muskgrass 
Waterlily 
Banana “‘ 
Yellow ‘“ 
Wokas 
American Lotus 
Water Milfoil 
Burreed 
Unidentified and 
Miscellaneous 
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