. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 606 THE AMERICAN RED-HEAD. habitat. It breeds in various parts of the United States, and does not appear to go to the extreme north, as most species do. The female is two inclies shorter tlian her mate, and about four inches less in extent of wing. It is one of the most active of its tribe, flying swiftly, and diving with great power. At Egg Harbor it is seen in small numbers, where it is called Welsh Drake, or German Duck. Audubon met with it aU along the shore, from Eastport to Texas.
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 606 THE AMERICAN RED-HEAD. habitat. It breeds in various parts of the United States, and does not appear to go to the extreme north, as most species do. The female is two inclies shorter tlian her mate, and about four inches less in extent of wing. It is one of the most active of its tribe, flying swiftly, and diving with great power. At Egg Harbor it is seen in small numbers, where it is called Welsh Drake, or German Duck. Audubon met with it aU along the shore, from Eastport to Texas. It is, however, more abimdant in the interior, and particularly on the tributaries of the great rivers. The Gadwall is not especially familiar, but is widely distributed. The Creoles of Louisiana call it violon, on account of the whistling sound produced by the wings. It gener- ally accompanies the widgeon and red-head. It assembles in small flocks, and feeds on small fish, insects, and aquatic weeds. The Gadwall is esteemed as nearly or quite equal to the red- head as food. Unlike some others, it walks with ease on land, often maldng incursions land-. aHOVELLEK Spatula clypeata. ward, where it finds succulent grasses and weeds to feed on. Like the mallard, it often alights in grain-fields and picks up the fallen grain. The male is twenty-one and tlireequarter inches long, and thirty-five inches in extent of wing; the female, nineteen and a quarter inches long, ^*nd thirty-one inches in extent of wing. We now arrive at another sub-family of Ducks, termed Fuligulin;e. The Pochard Dun-bird, or Eed-iieaded Poker, is one of the winter visitors of northern European countries, appearing, as is usual with such birds, in October, and departing in the spring. It is a wary and timid bird, and lieing an excellent diver, is often able to escape from the decoys by submerging itself at the first alarm, and making its way under water to the mouth of the tunnel. It is, however, posses
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