. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. CANVAS BACA' 149 With a roar of wings like the sound of many waters, as if actuated b
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. CANVAS BACA' 149 With a roar of wings like the sound of many waters, as if actuated by a single impulse, the feathered army rises in the air, and captained by a few old birds, sur- vivors of many a battle, the return journey commences. With a few preparatory wheels around the vicinity of their summer home, which many of them will never see again, the leaders head to the south, and, at a lofty height, guide the main body at a great speed toward the promised land. On Puckaway Lake, in Wisconsin, Canvas Backs and Red Heads would always make their appearance on the loth day of October. It was a very singular fact, but we could always be certain of seeing some of these Ducks at that date; no matter what the weather may have been up to that time, and even if the season had been unusually cold, these lairds did not appear before the loth. The lake contained plenty of wild rice and celery, and before it was closed by ice the Canvas Back would become very fat upon this food, and were not sur- passed in delicacy of flavor by any shot upon the famed waters of the Chesapeake. Like the Red Heads and some other diving ducks, the Canvas Back keep out in deep water and raft together in great numbers, seeking their food at the bottom. Their feet, although large and powerful, are not of much assistance in descending to the depths, but the wings are the bird's chief reliance for propulsion, and it flics under water as it does in the air, and the feet are employed mainly for guidi
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