. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. LOGY. Tin: IlMODKI) MKUWANSKR. 531 i,., iiuy ;•"> cciuKMi hi a hii'^o uum- SO iiiclios 0'"' shortest i) : tho usu
. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. LOGY. Tin: IlMODKI) MKUWANSKR. 531 i,., iiuy ;•"> cciuKMi hi a hii'^o uum- SO iiiclios 0'"' shortest i) : tho usual si/** i'^i on dies. 1 am not awaro ,11 found south of Lake approached, th>! female on aUirmcd hy bhnva ou nest is built. Slvo thou 3, near which the nest is idcr from a safo distant!, tiu-hance. If tlio ti-ec is jk that she cannot sec the Aloutly over and around 10 male never shows him- .t nicely that he separates lent of the period of in- uutil the young are able d of fresh water, this bir-^. or Mergansers, and then larvai, aud is an expert surprised, while with her vcs a guttural, chattering ,nd swims off under water themselves in the aquatic treating, the mother simii- CO some of the sliore-birds intruder, using every arti- •hborhood of her young,. when she takes wing, ami olf. If, liowcvf-r, sho bin.) sufficient notice of tlif approaeli of a person l;i> readies gunshot slie swims rapidly nil', uiih Inc ),. I,r,„.,l puddlingbcliind her, until sbe turns a point or neck in the pond or stream where she happens to be, when, silently creeping into sbore, siie, with her brood, iiides herself in the herbage on the land until the danger is past. When about two-thirds grown, lliese young Mtu'- gansers, like tiie young of most of the other fowls, are excellent eating. They are called " Flappi'rs," beeausi! of their habit of lla]»ping their wings on the water to aid their escape from ])ursuers. This species, in jiassing with its young fro
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