. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Green-winged Teal THE RARE beauty of this diminutive duck is not likely to escape notice, and its flesh has received a correspondingly high rating, even though it does take two birds on a single plate to provide a meal for a hungry man. Although no longer common, the Green-wing is probably still the best distributed of any of the California ducks. Its requirements of space and fare are so modest that it may be found upon all the smaller creeks
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Green-winged Teal THE RARE beauty of this diminutive duck is not likely to escape notice, and its flesh has received a correspondingly high rating, even though it does take two birds on a single plate to provide a meal for a hungry man. Although no longer common, the Green-wing is probably still the best distributed of any of the California ducks. Its requirements of space and fare are so modest that it may be found upon all the smaller creeks and ponds, irrigating ditches even. Normally these ducks are. Taken near Santa Barbara LADY GREENWING Photo by the Author highly gregarious, and the quick evolutions of a close-set flock of, say, fifty birds, form a spectacle to make men marvel. Not the best of our aerial circuses will ever attain such flexibility or precision of action. Long persecution, however, has scattered the ancient hordes, and strongly discouraged the flocking tendency. Twos and threes and half dozens are a common sight, and their continued pursuit falls to the farmer boy rather than to the clubman. The Green-winged Teal obtains its food not alone by tipping and dabbling, but by agile search on foot. The bird walks with ease and grace, and fallen seeds, nuts, grain, rice, berries, and acorns are as eagerly sought as are the worms and snails of the lesser mud-flats. The call-note of the Teal is a miniature "quack" with a whistling quality, and it is probably uttered only by the female. Whatever be the case with the human species—and now that suffrage is an ac- complished fact, we are less bold than in some of our former allegations— it is unquestionable that the duck ladies have practically usurped the 1768. 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 per
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