. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. 240 ii'.-i I OWL. Ducks of cxtondc'd reputation. This idea has hccn taken advant
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. 240 ii'.-i I OWL. Ducks of cxtondc'd reputation. This idea has hccn taken advantaj^c of 1)\ the market men, and a pair of this small inferior I )uek hrinj^ as hij^h a price as Keel Heads did a few years a^o. While affordinj^ a fair dish. if properly broiled, there is nothing in the flesh of this bird to merit any particular conunendation. Its food usually consists of various i^rasses. roots, and leaves of plants, and j)()ssil)ly at limes it may vary its diet with mol- lusca of different kinds. Ueinj.:^ a divinp^ Duck, it obtains the articles for its bill of fare from off the bottom. V \ \ if i: I' 11: "I % â 'i 1 1 1 â ' ( [[ 1 i ; 1, i â â â Mi;: : '' 1 1 I-RISM,I rURA JAM. I /( 7-:\S/S. Gcoj^raphical /)/stn'i>iit'.'ott.âNinlh .Xnicrici j^enurally, ex- cept Alaska. South to the West Indies ami C"oh)niljia. Hrceds throiijfhout tlu' greater part of its range, frotn Fhulson Bay to (rualemahi. Adult Mali- in hull /'hnnaxf-âTpper part f)t' liead, inchidinj; the eye and nai)r, j^lossy jet l)lack. Sides of head and chin, white. Throat and all the neck, hack, up))er tail coverts, scapu- lars, and flanks, brij^ht reddish chcstniit. Winj; coverts, lower back and runij), j^rayish brown. Primaries, dull brown, sjjcckled near cdj,;c of outer web with j^ray. 'Pail, brownish black. Under parts below the upper part of breast, silvery white, which is the hue of tlic li])S of the feathers only, the hidden portion being brownish gray. Sometimes these tip
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