Outing . hundred other eggs werethen under silky, Plymouth Rock, Ban-tam, and Rhode Island Red hens. Fifty-two eggs had been taken from the nestsof the golden pheasant and twenty-threehatched and raised. The silver pheasantsshowed the poorest results, due, nodoubt, to the fact that these birds are 24 OUTING practically monogamous. From the 20silver hens 167 eggs were produced, butof these only 15 were fertile. The 15all hatched, however, notwithstanding anowl caught two of the chicks. All the water fowl mated, but onlythe wood duck and the mallard nested,owing no doubt to the presence of row-b
Outing . hundred other eggs werethen under silky, Plymouth Rock, Ban-tam, and Rhode Island Red hens. Fifty-two eggs had been taken from the nestsof the golden pheasant and twenty-threehatched and raised. The silver pheasantsshowed the poorest results, due, nodoubt, to the fact that these birds are 24 OUTING practically monogamous. From the 20silver hens 167 eggs were produced, butof these only 15 were fertile. The 15all hatched, however, notwithstanding anowl caught two of the chicks. All the water fowl mated, but onlythe wood duck and the mallard nested,owing no doubt to the presence of row-boats on the pond. The canvasback, teal,pintails, widgeon, geese, brant, and others heads, pintails, and teal will nest andhatch their young. H. K. Job, Stateornithologist of Connecticut, went toLake Winnepegosis, Manitoba, Canada,last summer, to bring back native stockfor this pond. Of the Hungarian hares twelve camethrough the winter successfully, and thisspring showed themselves with aboutthirty YOUNG WILD DUCKS TAKING TO COVER. MOST OF THESE DUCKS WEREBROUGHT FROM MANITOBA IN BROODERS were also shy, and those ducks which didnest were so successful in hiding that noone could find them until the motherbirds came off with their young. Thesixty ducks which stayed out on the iceall winter scattered in the spring whenthe geese were liberated, and being ableto fly, nested in neighboring ponds, re-turning each evening for feeding. Later, about the middle of July, fourpinioned mallards (one drake and threeducks) were taken to Great MountainPond, about three miles back in thewoods, and liberated upon an islandthere. An automatic feed trough wasleft with them, filled. In less than tendays these ducks were joined by twenty-four wild ones, and next season, whenthe wild rice and celery shall have comeup, more ducks will be put in this pond,and here, where absolute privacy is as-sured, it is believed that even the red- Such is the record of the beginning ofan experiment which is bo
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