. Among the water-fowl, observation, adventure, photography [microform] : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains. Water birds; Water birds; Water birds; Photography of birds; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux. Wild-Fowl of Wild-Fowl. other islands. I had seen some of the birds and was prepared for what now took place. Up flut- tered a thick-set brown Duck, with white wing-bars, from the grass a couple of yards up from the shore. It was unmistakably a Scaup, and a la
. Among the water-fowl, observation, adventure, photography [microform] : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains. Water birds; Water birds; Water birds; Photography of birds; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux. Wild-Fowl of Wild-Fowl. other islands. I had seen some of the birds and was prepared for what now took place. Up flut- tered a thick-set brown Duck, with white wing-bars, from the grass a couple of yards up from the shore. It was unmistakably a Scaup, and a large specimen at that. In a typical,well-con- ccaled, down- lined nest were nine large, dark brown eggs. Their size, meas- uring from two and a half to two and six-tenths inches in length, made it sure that they belonged to the Greater Scaup. According to the books, none of the Scaups had been known to nest on the Atlantic coast. The fisherman affirmed that Teal of both kinds nested on the islands. For a time it s-emed that all my arduous wading and tramping would fail to verify this. But on the afternoon of June i6, as I was wearily dragging my heavy boots along the edge of a slough, something suddenly went flap- ping over the grass, out from under a projecting spruce-bough that sprawled flat on the ground, on which I had almost trodden. It was a female Blue- winged Teal. I lifted the bough, and there were 209 IN A TYPICAL, WILI^CONCEALED. DOWN-LINED NEST WBKB NINE LAKCB DARK BROWN ; NBST OP GREATER SCAUP. MAGDALEN ISLANDS. " ACCORD- ING TO THE BOOKS, NONE OP THE SCAUPS HAD BEEN KNOWN TO BREED IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933. Toronto : Musson Book Co.
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