Show MUD HEN BECOMES WHITE BILL NOW for years hunters have shot the coot or and then tossed the water fowl away in disgust d despite es opinions of experts that the mud hen was as edible as any other duck at a recent meeting of ducks unlimited according to information re by the state fish and game department the sportsmen voted to change the common name of mud hen to white bill and as such the coot is expected to join the other water fowl on the average bill of tare fare I 1 investigations have shown the th mud hen or white bill does ab nb not t eat fish and mud as commonly suspected but that its diet is as dean clean as any ducks so its white bills now brother and any duffer get a bag of them |