Excerpt from Birds in Relation to Fishes In most instances abundance and accessibility are the primary factors determining the type of fishes taken by birds. The more sluggish surface feeding or shallow - water species not utilized as food by man, as menhaden, gizzard shad, killifishes, minnows, and suckers, greatly outnumber the valuable species and are more easily captured; in consequence they usually compose the bulk of the fish diet of fish - eating birds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.