. Birds of the water, wood & waste . vered by the Scaup before goingoff, discovery is even more difficult, as thebrown down admirably matches the flaxwaste. The proper gear for this kind of birdnesting is pickaxe, spade and lantern, theoldest possible rig-out, and a hat that canbe glued to the skull like a cowl. The little Scaup hatched out by our henswere tiny brown creatures with dispropor-tionate feet, enormous for their bodys size,and reminding one of children wearingtheir fathers fishing brogues. They were 22 BIRDS OF THE WATER not particularly wild in the sense of beingtimid, but rather
. Birds of the water, wood & waste . vered by the Scaup before goingoff, discovery is even more difficult, as thebrown down admirably matches the flaxwaste. The proper gear for this kind of birdnesting is pickaxe, spade and lantern, theoldest possible rig-out, and a hat that canbe glued to the skull like a cowl. The little Scaup hatched out by our henswere tiny brown creatures with dispropor-tionate feet, enormous for their bodys size,and reminding one of children wearingtheir fathers fishing brogues. They were 22 BIRDS OF THE WATER not particularly wild in the sense of beingtimid, but rather only perfectly indifferentto their foster hen, deliberately leaving herwhen the netting was removed, and notattempting to return, or even evincing anysense of being lost. None of them year I intend to place among anyyoung Scaup hatched a duckling of domesti-cated breed. The wild birds might thus beinduced to more quickly take to the strangefood offered them, and would also, I think,more readily accept the alien ac^^^^ ^^^>^Ae^^
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