School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . RT, Institute, London W^UCKS are not always ducks as I learned some years ago whileI I on my first duck-shooting expedition. It was in Saskatchewan in^^^ a foreign settlement. On a school holiday I went out with someof the big boys to get duck for dinner. We saw a number in a slough,but there were two which did not, like the others, fly away when ap-proached. These would dive and swim under water. I fired at one;and, flushed with success, waded out to secure my prize. The boys,however, smiled knowingly and said,—
School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . RT, Institute, London W^UCKS are not always ducks as I learned some years ago whileI I on my first duck-shooting expedition. It was in Saskatchewan in^^^ a foreign settlement. On a school holiday I went out with someof the big boys to get duck for dinner. We saw a number in a slough,but there were two which did not, like the others, fly away when ap-proached. These would dive and swim under water. I fired at one;and, flushed with success, waded out to secure my prize. The boys,however, smiled knowingly and said,—Its only a diver. Yes, I may as well confess my ignorance. I then learned, for thefirst time, that a duck might sometimes be a diver, or more properlya grebe. Before the summer was over I learned many of the differencesbetween the duck and grebe. The latter may be easily recognised evenat a distance by the habit of sinking slowly out of sight into the wateror of diving quickly and swimming under water. A close examinationshows differences in the bill and
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