. The American sportsman: . The best weather for this sport isa clear, windy, half moonlight night, provided the wind does notblow from you, as the ducks may smell you: in fact, it is alwaysnecessary to get to the leeward of wild fowl of all kinds, as theirpower of scenting is very great. The English variety is easilydomesticated in places where there is plenty of water, and aremuch admired for their beauty, sprightly look, and frolicsomemanners. The same is said of the American widgeon. Bald-pates can be decoyed within gunshot by imitating theirpeculiar shrill note; are not apt to dart at dec
. The American sportsman: . The best weather for this sport isa clear, windy, half moonlight night, provided the wind does notblow from you, as the ducks may smell you: in fact, it is alwaysnecessary to get to the leeward of wild fowl of all kinds, as theirpower of scenting is very great. The English variety is easilydomesticated in places where there is plenty of water, and aremuch admired for their beauty, sprightly look, and frolicsomemanners. The same is said of the American widgeon. Bald-pates can be decoyed within gunshot by imitating theirpeculiar shrill note; are not apt to dart at decoys off points, ex-cept in foggy weather. They are migratory, and breed in theNorth, on the coast of Hudsons Bay; they visit the ricefields ofthe South during the winter in considerable numbers, and are muchesteemed by the planters as an article of food. For fuither information on the subject of widgeon, we beg torefer the reader to Colonel Hawker, the Magnus Apollo of wild-fowl shooting, as he has very justly been
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