. Our wild fowl and waders . unks, raccoons,squirrels, snakes and moles. In settled regions rovingdogs, cats and rats are added to the list, and these becomeoften the worst enemies of wild fowl. In addition to the enemies named, frogs, turtles andcertain fish also are known to take young ducks. Mr. Robert B. Lawrence told me that a frog in hisbrothers duck pond was killed which had devoured ayoung sprig-tailed duck, and since many young wood-duck had disappeared, unaccountably, he believed thefrogs had eaten them. A correspondent of The AmericanField confirms the destructive propensities of th
. Our wild fowl and waders . unks, raccoons,squirrels, snakes and moles. In settled regions rovingdogs, cats and rats are added to the list, and these becomeoften the worst enemies of wild fowl. In addition to the enemies named, frogs, turtles andcertain fish also are known to take young ducks. Mr. Robert B. Lawrence told me that a frog in hisbrothers duck pond was killed which had devoured ayoung sprig-tailed duck, and since many young wood-duck had disappeared, unaccountably, he believed thefrogs had eaten them. A correspondent of The AmericanField confirms the destructive propensities of the bull-frog. We had, he says, quite a number of tame mal-lard ducks, which hatched their eggs in the woods, andthe first we saw of their young was in the water withtheir mothers. We noticed the number of the ducklingsdecreased quite rapidly and found on investigation thatwhen they got near the shores, one after another werepulled under the water by large frogs, which drownedand then swallowed them. To preserve them, whenever. A SCARB-FOXThe Scare-fox has shutters wliicii are run by clockworkto fall every ten minutes, causing the light toflash U three directions. GROUND AND WATER ENEMIES 89 we saw a new brood on the water, we captured and keptthem in the until they were quite largeenough to care for themselves. Pike also take young ducks, and turtles, where theyare abundant, are a serious check to the increase ofducks. The Fox.—In places where foxes are numerous un-doubtedly they destroy many game birds as well as poul-try. Mr. F. E. R. Fryer, an English authority on gamepreserving, says: Although I am of the opinion that inthe long run it is best not to attempt game preservingon a large scale in a fox-hunting county, just as I thinkit is a mistake to try to start a pack of hounds in a goodpartridge county, a few hints as to the best way to pro-tect the partridge from the fox may be of interest tosome, who, though all in favor of fox-hunting, like occa-sionally to
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