. A natural history of the ducks . open. Theyalso make a hissing noise when angry. Another writer (Gyldenstolpe, 1916) speaksof a faint quacking sound. Food. Nothing is known of its diet beyond the note of Robinson and Kloss (1911)that it feeds in rice-fields, and that the specimens examined had been feeding onvery large snails, apparently a species of Ampullaria. In captivity they wereomnivorous and proved to be very fond of small fishes, and expert at catching preferred animal food to grain, green food, and water-plants (Baker, 1908). Courtship and Nesting. Almost nothing is known
. A natural history of the ducks . open. Theyalso make a hissing noise when angry. Another writer (Gyldenstolpe, 1916) speaksof a faint quacking sound. Food. Nothing is known of its diet beyond the note of Robinson and Kloss (1911)that it feeds in rice-fields, and that the specimens examined had been feeding onvery large snails, apparently a species of Ampullaria. In captivity they wereomnivorous and proved to be very fond of small fishes, and expert at catching preferred animal food to grain, green food, and water-plants (Baker, 1908). Courtship and Nesting. Almost nothing is known of the nesting habits of theWhite-wing. One nest, described by Baker, was taken from a deep hollow caused bya decay at the first bifurcation of the trunk of a tree standing on the banks of astream. The nest was said by the native who found it to be a mass of grass andother rubbish with a lining of feathers and down. Baker was told also that the birdsdid not always nest in holes of trees, but sometimes made rough nests on masses of. Map 5. Distribution of White-winged Wood Duck (Asarcornis scutulata)Unusual locality shown by a cross (X) WHITE-WINGED WOOD DUCK 83 branches (nests of other species?), and at other times actually nested on the description of the eggs is available, but they are probably white or nearly so. Status of Species. I have no means of estimating the present status of thisspecies, beyond what has been said under Distribution. Food Value. Nothing is recorded, but it is said to be eaten regularly by someplanters in Assam. More than three or four birds can rarely be obtained in a dayshunt, and this only after a walk of twenty miles or more. Baker mentions that hislive birds were all obtained by setting many nooses about the edges of waters fre-quented by them where they were easy to catch owing to their habit of resorting tothe same stretch of ground when entering or leaving the water. Behavior in Captivity. Baker kept many of these birds in confinement
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