. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Game and game-birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Gibier; Oiseaux aquatiques. r 306 SWIMMLKS. at length urged into the net, sometnnes in siu h <|uantilies that five or six dozen have been taken out at one drift. 'I'he food of the \\ iUl huck is small fish, fry, snails, aquatic insects and plants, as well as seeds and most sorts of grain. In the severity of winter, if the standing waters become fro/en, these birds remove to running rivers and resort to the edge of woods in (|uest of acorn
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Game and game-birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Gibier; Oiseaux aquatiques. r 306 SWIMMLKS. at length urged into the net, sometnnes in siu h <|uantilies that five or six dozen have been taken out at one drift. 'I'he food of the \\ iUl huck is small fish, fry, snails, aquatic insects and plants, as well as seeds and most sorts of grain. In the severity of winter, if the standing waters become fro/en, these birds remove to running rivers and resort to the edge of woods in (|uest of acorns or other suitable food ; but if the frost continues for eight or ten days they disappear, and do not return till the early thaws of the spring. The Mallard is a rare bird in New Kngland and the Provinces, but it is (juite common in western Ontario and .Manitoba, and elsewhere throughout North America, breeding from Indiana and Iowa northward. On the .Atlantic coast it is not known to breed south of Lal)railor. Nuttall's statement that many of these birds pass the greater part of the winter in Greenland has been (lucstioned, though European naturalists have been aware that the Mallards were inthienced to migrate more by the absence of open water than by change of temperature. Mr. Hagerup has confirmed .Nuttall's statement by reporting that in soutli Cireenland the .Mallards "are common the whole year round, but most numerous in winter, when they keep in small tlocks along the ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924. Boston : Little, Brown
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