. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them ... Hunting; Game and game-birds. â â m^^^^mikb CHAPTER XIV. THE CANVAS-BACK DUCK. The Canvas-Back, while the best known of the nu- merous varieties of duck in certain localities, in others are comparatively strangers. In the East, in and around Chesapeake Bay, they have been known from the ear- liest recollection of the inhabitants. Their habits, their feeding grounds, their places of resort, the various de- vices and means to effec
. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them ... Hunting; Game and game-birds. â â m^^^^mikb CHAPTER XIV. THE CANVAS-BACK DUCK. The Canvas-Back, while the best known of the nu- merous varieties of duck in certain localities, in others are comparatively strangers. In the East, in and around Chesapeake Bay, they have been known from the ear- liest recollection of the inhabitants. Their habits, their feeding grounds, their places of resort, the various de- vices and means to effect their capture, whether by toling. the captor benefiting by the inquisitiveness of the bird, the bringing them down in point shooting, the shooting them over decoys, from sink boxes, killing them from sailing boats, or the destructive way of slaughtering them during the night by poachers with enormous swivel guns, lashed to. strong boats, burning heavy charges of powder and hurling with murderous effect the leaden hail into the sleeping ranks of the un- suspecting birds, killing scores of them at one discharge. 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 Leffingwell, William Bruce. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Co.
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