. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . From Titusville southward there are many places on the IndianRiver where good duck shooting may be had. In the vicinity ofthe Ten Thousand Islands the duck shooting is sometimes verygood. At one time ducks came in great numbers to pass the winter onthe east coast of Florida, attracted there by an abundance of theirfavorite food. A bag of one hundred birds in a days shooting overdecoys or stools was not uncommon. I must plead guilty to hav-ing done this myself on one or two occasions, but none of
. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . From Titusville southward there are many places on the IndianRiver where good duck shooting may be had. In the vicinity ofthe Ten Thousand Islands the duck shooting is sometimes verygood. At one time ducks came in great numbers to pass the winter onthe east coast of Florida, attracted there by an abundance of theirfavorite food. A bag of one hundred birds in a days shooting overdecoys or stools was not uncommon. I must plead guilty to hav-ing done this myself on one or two occasions, but none of the birdswere wasted, and I am glad to say that I have many times killed. HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. 85 twenty-five or thirty ducks in a couple of hours and stopped shootingwhen I could easily have killed many more than one hundred had Idesired to do so. Early in the season, when the ducks first arrive,immense numbers are killed by the pot hunters, who use heavyguns and shoot into the flocks when bunched together in the course such continual slaughter must necessarily reduce the
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