. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . from whence they derive theirname. We have shot them very frequently in company AvithCanvass-Backs, and under such circumstances always foundthem excellent eating; they should be split open in the backand broiled, with a particle of butter for dressing. SCAUP-DUCK, OR BLACK-HEAD. 299 DESCRIPTION. The length of the Blue-Bill is nineteen inches; extent twenty-nine inches; bill broad, generally of a light blue, sometimes ofa dusky lead color; irides reddish; hea
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . from whence they derive theirname. We have shot them very frequently in company AvithCanvass-Backs, and under such circumstances always foundthem excellent eating; they should be split open in the backand broiled, with a particle of butter for dressing. SCAUP-DUCK, OR BLACK-HEAD. 299 DESCRIPTION. The length of the Blue-Bill is nineteen inches; extent twenty-nine inches; bill broad, generally of a light blue, sometimes ofa dusky lead color; irides reddish; head tumid, covered withplumage of a dark glossy green, extending half-way down theneck; rest of the neck and breast black, spreading round to theback; back and scapulars white, thickly crossed with wavinglines of black; lesser coverts dusky, powdered with veins ofwhitish; primaries and tertials brownish black; secondarieswhite, tipped with black, forming the speculum; rump and tailcoverts black; tail short, rounded, and of a dusky brown;belly white, crossed near the vent with waving lines of ash;vent black; legs and feet dark ANAS DISCORS. BLUE-WINGED TEAL. This little Duck is among the first of the Water Fowl thatvisit the shores of the Delaware and Chesapeake from the farregions of the North. They arrive among us in September,and remain feedinsr along the fresh-water shores and mud-flatsuntil driven further South by the chilling frosts of these regions,as they are a very tender Bird, and spend the most of theirtime in parts where the weather is mild. Blue-Winged Tealappear to be much less cunning than most other varieties ofWild Fowl, as it is not difficult to approach them in a boat orunder cover of any simple device. The Shooters on the Delaware kill great numbers from thereeds, over Stool-Ducks set out on the mud; they stool withoutdifficulty, and drop down among the Decoys and go to eating asif they were surrounded by busy companions like themselves. They stool bett
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