The American coot as a game bird
- Title
- The American coot as a game bird
- LC Subject
- Hunting Coots Rails (Birds)
- Repository
- Oregon State University. Libraries
- Creator
- Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
- Description
- Manuscript that wonders if the American coot, also known as a mud hen, would become a game bird. Coots were considered nuisances because they took away food sources from ducks. According to the document, ducks used coots as buffers in order to better protect themselves from hunters.
- Work Type
- manuscripts (documents) typescripts
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Identifier
- mssfinley_series01_box02_folder04_33
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- William L. Finley Papers, 1899-1946 (MSS Finley)
- Type
- Text
- Format
- application/pdf
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Reuniting Finley and Bohlman
- Primary Set
- Reuniting Finley and Bohlman
- Is Part Of
- Series 1: Manuscripts; Box 2, folder 6: Manuscripts: Typescripts, circa 1930s
- Institution
- Oregon State University
