. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . black lines ; middle of the breast white ; wingslight brownish gray; alula, primaries at the base andend, and greater part of secondaries, brownish black ;the speculum of the latter white ; length to end of tailsixteen and a half inches; extent of wings twenty-nine ; weight 1 lb. 6 ozs. Adult Female.—T\\Q female agrees with the male inthe characters of the plumage and in the colors of thebare parts, but those of the former differ c
. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . black lines ; middle of the breast white ; wingslight brownish gray; alula, primaries at the base andend, and greater part of secondaries, brownish black ;the speculum of the latter white ; length to end of tailsixteen and a half inches; extent of wings twenty-nine ; weight 1 lb. 6 ozs. Adult Female.—T\\Q female agrees with the male inthe characters of the plumage and in the colors of thebare parts, but those of the former differ head, neck and fore parts of the back and breastare umber brown ; and there is a broad patch of whitealong the fore part of the forehead ; the upper parts ingeneral are brownish black; the middle of the backand scapulars, undulated with whitish dots and bars ;the primary quills are grayish in the middle, and thespeculum is white, but of less extent than in the male ;the greater part of the breast and abdomen is white;the sides and parts under the tail umber brown. Length sixteen and a lialf inches ; extent of wings28 ; weight 1 lb., 6 oz. ,. CANVAS-BACK DUCK. JUL CAyVA!s-JiACK DUCK. 157 CHAPTER XIV. THE CANVAS-BACK DUCK. The Canvas-Back, while the best known of the nu-merous varieties of duck in certain localities, in othersare comparatively strangers. In the East, in and aroundChesapeake Bay, they have been known from the ear-liest recollection of the inhabitants. Their habits, theirfeeding grounds, their places of resort, the various de-vices and means to effect their capture, whether bytoling. the captor benefiting by the inquisitiveness ofthe bird, the bringing them down in point shooting,the shooting them over decoys, from sink boxes, killingthem from sailing boats, or the destructive way ofslaughtering them during the night by poachers withenormous swivel guns, lashed to strong boats, burningheavy charges of powder and hurling with murderouseffect the le
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