. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . derably smaller,and differs greatly from the male in coloring. Thefeathers of the head are not elongated, but those of theupper part of the neck are slightly so. In other re-spects the plumage presents nothing very remarkableand is similar to that of the male. Bill, blackish , dusky, tinged with yellow. Upper part of thehead, dusky, glossed with green. Sides of the headand neck, and the hind part of the latter, light brow
. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . derably smaller,and differs greatly from the male in coloring. Thefeathers of the head are not elongated, but those of theupper part of the neck are slightly so. In other re-spects the plumage presents nothing very remarkableand is similar to that of the male. Bill, blackish , dusky, tinged with yellow. Upper part of thehead, dusky, glossed with green. Sides of the headand neck, and the hind part of the latter, light brownishgray. Throat, white, but without the lateral processesof the male. Fore part of the neck below, and sides,light yellowish brown, mottled with grayish brown, asare the sides under the wings. Breast and abdomen,white, the former spotted with brown. Hind neck,back, and rump dark brown, glossed with green andpurple. Wings as in male, but the speculum less, and 44 WILD FOHL SHOOTING. the secondaries externally faint reddish purple ; thevelvety black of the male diminished to a few nairowmarkings. Tail, dark brown, [[•lossed with 19, 1-2 CHAPTER IV. BLUE-WINGED TEAL. {Anas Discors.) The Blue-Winged Teal is among the swiftest andspriglitliest of the duck species. They afford delightfulsport to the hunter, for they are always with us at a timewhen early fall commences to tinge forest and field withits autumn colorings. They are gentle, confiding littlethings, and live, travel and associate together in the great-est harmony. They are great lovers of warm sunshine,andean be seen sitting on the shore, on muskrat housesand small elevations of almost any kind dozing andbasking in the sun. Active little fellows when feeding ;they wade through shallow water, skimming bugs andlarvae from the surface, or hastily gulp down a ven-turesome insect that indiscreetly gets near them. Un-like the larger variety of ducks, they avoid open waterand content themselves huddling t
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