File: #:qail 
Phesa tsa 
Foods 
(  tact       letter f    o y0. Steele, sperintendet,    per Mississippi

River Wild Life and Fis Ru     ,    *ederal  ildi , Winna, Minnesota, 
Deceber 19, 1934.) 
"Te boys bro    t in an interesting report this morningregari 
riU-nc kfoudhVf                 qite a large patc   of J1mson wed 
ich ws overn with both         I      ri -neks. De            eks w 
pling the pods &owu and br     ng theapart for the seeds and I as 
the quail wer  feedi   on the seeds attered about on the snow as the 
re  It of their being tor up by the ri     ecks.  While this seed is not

0on in thebttoms, there is a onsiderable mount of it and I ws 
rie       at the amount of so   contained in a single pod. Undobtedly 
this is an attractive and spl   id so   *ce of food for these two birds and

probably others.0