. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. ilil ; • WATER I-OWL. curved line, not nearly so ani;nlar as tlie \'-shaped ranks uf
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. ilil ; • WATER I-OWL. curved line, not nearly so ani;nlar as tlie \'-shaped ranks uf the Canada and other (leese. Witli their snowy forms movinii- steacHlv alonp- in ihe cahn air, the outstretched wings tii)pe(l with black, glowing in the sun's rays with the faint blush of the rose, they present a most beautiful sight. Usually ihey tly silentl>- with hardly a perceptible movement of the pinions, high above "... the landscape lying so far below With its towns and rivers and desert places, And the splendor of lij^lit above, and the glow Of the limitless blue ethereal ; ! I Occasionally, however, a solitary note like a softened Iloiik is borne from out the sky to the ear of the watcher beneath. Should they perceive a place tha,. at- tracts them they begin to lower, at first gradually, sail- ing along on motioidess wings until near the desired spot, and then descend rapidly in zigzag lines until the ground or water is almost reached, when with a few quick flaps they gently alight. It is difficult to get close to them, as they are very watchful, and if they become suspicious an alarm is sounded and the flock betakes itself to some other locality. Sometimes, in passing hom one place to another, they tly low enough to give the con- cealed gunner a chance for a successful shot, but I have never known them to decoy at all well, and the majority of those procured are birds passing to and from their feeding grounds. As an article of food I have never
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