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Julien
1950
Fulica americana 171
Jan 17 Univ. Calif. Campus, Alameda Co., Cal. -
have never been completely cleaned
up during the course of 24 hours --
especially grain in the water remained
for three or more days. But since
I have started feeding them all the
greens they can take, grain consumption
has risen so that the two scoops
put in last evening, one on land
and one in the water, were completely
gone by 4:45 p.m. today. No
grain anywhere in the area. So I
put in two cans (four scoops)
this evening. About all that's left
of yesterday's greens are the onions
and some of the turnip tops. Dumped
a half sac in this evening, mostly
of lettuce leaves. Apparently their
hunger for greens is finally satisfied
for they are showing very little
interest in feeding now. Two birds,
O/B and O/G have lost 1 tag apiece.
LB/G seems to have one bad leg, that
is the ex-malasia test bird. The
whole lot of birds seem to be plenty
frisky. 5:15 p.m. - S/B was in the
corners unto the fern, with her head
down and tail spreadle in a polygon
plane, making a low