. Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . River and Pond Ducks particularly active toward night and at dawn, they are notso shy as many. Farmers often see them picking up cornthrown about the barnyard; and Mr. Arnold tells in the Nid-ologist of finding nests of the green-winged teals built in tuftsof grass on the sun baked banks along the railroad tracks inManitoba, where the workmen constantly passed the broodingfemales intent only on keeping warm their large nestful of cream-white eggs. Nests have been found elsew
. Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . River and Pond Ducks particularly active toward night and at dawn, they are notso shy as many. Farmers often see them picking up cornthrown about the barnyard; and Mr. Arnold tells in the Nid-ologist of finding nests of the green-winged teals built in tuftsof grass on the sun baked banks along the railroad tracks inManitoba, where the workmen constantly passed the broodingfemales intent only on keeping warm their large nestful of cream-white eggs. Nests have been found elsewhere, quite a distancefrom water, which would seem scarcely intelligent were not theteals very good walkers from the first, and less dependent thanothers on the food water supplies. In the west one some-times surprises a brood and its devoted little mother poking aboutin the undergrowth for acorns, or for grapes, corn, wheat, andoats that lie about the cultivated lands at harvest time. Green-wings are early nesters, and have full fledged young in July, whenthe blue-wings and cinnamon teal are still sitting. Blue-wi
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