. British birds. Birds. THE COURTSHIP OF THE MALLARD. 5 but I think it may be said to be a low whistle with a suspicion of a groan in it, as though it caused the bird an effort to utter. Following this, the Mallards lower their breasts and raise their tails two or three times in quick succession ; and this, which we may call action No. 3 (see Fig. 3), is often followed by a repetition of actions Nos. 1 and 2. A quick " throw up " of head and tail, with. FIG. 4. MALLARD DRAKE. COURTSHIP ACTION NO. 4. (Drawn by H. Wormald.) the feathers of the head puffed out, is action No. 4 (see Fig.
. British birds. Birds. THE COURTSHIP OF THE MALLARD. 5 but I think it may be said to be a low whistle with a suspicion of a groan in it, as though it caused the bird an effort to utter. Following this, the Mallards lower their breasts and raise their tails two or three times in quick succession ; and this, which we may call action No. 3 (see Fig. 3), is often followed by a repetition of actions Nos. 1 and 2. A quick " throw up " of head and tail, with. FIG. 4. MALLARD DRAKE. COURTSHIP ACTION NO. 4. (Drawn by H. Wormald.) the feathers of the head puffed out, is action No. 4 (see Fig. 4), and this is followed quickly by action No. 5 (see Fig. 5), in which the drakes stretch out their necks with their throats just over the water and swim rapidly about in different directions, when, apparently by common consent, they all come back to action No. 1, and go through the whole performance over 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 London, Witherby & Co
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