. Among the water-fowl; observation, adventure, photography. A popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky mountains . r south as southern NewEngland, all we can hope to find of breeding Ducksare the Dusky and the Wood Ducks, and it is noeasy matter to find even these. Usually it is moreby accident than otherwise. On Marthas VineyardI was once exploring an alder swamp for the homeof a pair of Marsh Hawks, when a great DuskyDuck suddenly whirred up from beneath an alder,almost in my face, and I found my first Ducksne
. Among the water-fowl; observation, adventure, photography. A popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky mountains . r south as southern NewEngland, all we can hope to find of breeding Ducksare the Dusky and the Wood Ducks, and it is noeasy matter to find even these. Usually it is moreby accident than otherwise. On Marthas VineyardI was once exploring an alder swamp for the homeof a pair of Marsh Hawks, when a great DuskyDuck suddenly whirred up from beneath an alder,almost in my face, and I found my first Ducksnest with an even dozen fine eggs. This was thesecond day of June, and they were almost ready to hatch. An-A^ other time whenI was exploringthe rushy edgeof a pond in Con-necticut, I no-ticed a dark placeunder somerushes thatlooked suspici-ously like Duck-down. It wasthat, indeed, and on pulling it apart I found elevenwarm eggs of the Dusky Duck. The Wood Duck is the most domestic of allthe tribe, and is very apt to nest in some most unex-pected place, close to human habitations. I knewof one nest in a knot-hole of a large maple, only sixfeet from the ground, right on a well-traveled road 212. ON PULLING IT APART I FOUND ELEVEN WARM EGGSOF THE DUSKV DUCK. FOUND IN KENT, CONN. Wild-Fowl of Wild-Fowl near a house. Hearing of a Duck being seen abouta certain farmers barn, I climbed up on top of hishay-mow,—the middle of May, it was — and dis-covered a female Wood Duck sitting on ten eggsin a hollow she had dug in the hay and lined withdown from her breast. She went in and out of ahole near the eaves. The farmer said that duringher laying time she was absent all day, but at nightshe and her mate sat on the ridge-pole of the roof,and each morning when he entered the barn tomilk she flew out, having deposited another eggsince the evening before. Another equally interest-ing bird,—possibly the same one,—made a nest thenext season in a barn two miles from this one,and the farmer
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