. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America . t, in the valley of the Saskatche-wan, the Mackenzie River district, and about HudsonBay. It makes its nest in tall grass or in clumps ofdried grass and feathers, and lays from eight to a dozenivory white eggs. Incubation commences the last ofMay, and the young are hatched by July. This speciesgoes in large flocks, and flies with great swiftness, attimes keeping a straight course, as though its destina-tion was unalterably fixed in its mind and it intendedto reach it by
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America . t, in the valley of the Saskatche-wan, the Mackenzie River district, and about HudsonBay. It makes its nest in tall grass or in clumps ofdried grass and feathers, and lays from eight to a dozenivory white eggs. Incubation commences the last ofMay, and the young are hatched by July. This speciesgoes in large flocks, and flies with great swiftness, attimes keeping a straight course, as though its destina-tion was unalterably fixed in its mind and it intendedto reach it by the shortest possible route, and againit will be irregular and vacillating in its movements,changing its course frequently and dodging about withas much eccentricity of action as that exhibited by abutterfly in a strong breeze. But whatever may be itsmovements, its flight is always rapid, and its small bodyproves to be an exceedingly dii^cult mark to hit. Although usually breeding north of the boundary be-tween the United States and Canada, it has been knownto nest in Wisconsin, Iowa, and others of the northern 136 6 y. A.
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