. Rod and gun . so scarce as to be accidental in Canada. Wehave found the ground nest feather-linedand full of buff-colored eggs, a dozenand a half is not unusual. We have moreoften met the blue-winged than itssmaller cousin, the green-winged, but wehave never seen a cinnamon teal east ofthe Rockies, although we know they aresparsely scattered as far east as are a very sociable duck, chummingin readily with any migrants. We havefound them nesting on ground, marsh,and using the floating bog for nestingplaces. I think they are the swiftest ofducks; at least they are the most rapidth
. Rod and gun . so scarce as to be accidental in Canada. Wehave found the ground nest feather-linedand full of buff-colored eggs, a dozenand a half is not unusual. We have moreoften met the blue-winged than itssmaller cousin, the green-winged, but wehave never seen a cinnamon teal east ofthe Rockies, although we know they aresparsely scattered as far east as are a very sociable duck, chummingin readily with any migrants. We havefound them nesting on ground, marsh,and using the floating bog for nestingplaces. I think they are the swiftest ofducks; at least they are the most rapidthat ever flew over our naturally measuredhalf mile, disappearing around the pointof the next island in twenty seconds—this makes the rate something nearlyeighty miles per hour. One very oddthing—of all the hundreds of teal wehave yearly killed in the east, is thatnot five per cent, were mature males;there was a fair percentage of very youngmales. This teaches us that the bril-liantlv marked males must migrate. DcLOyuig Goideii-Eye. (American.) WILD DUCKS IX CANADA 113 alone on some other route than that viathe great lakes. On the Pacific coast Isee more males, but even yet the ma-jority of the flocks are females. Thesenoisy birds feed mainly at night. Inthe fall they gather in flocks of severalhundreds to migrate, but at once onentering new feeding grounds break upin flocks of ten and twenty. The cin-namon drake burns like a coal of fireamid the ever-present green of this wildcoast. A long flight this wee ducktakes from our timber limit line in thenorth to South America—five thousandmiles for a few weeks vacation. In the shoveller we have the moatsparsely scattered of the good food ducks—at least in our ex-perience. I haveseen it in Ontario,very rare there. Ihave found it in fairquantities on theprairies. It is com-mon in British Co-lumbia, all save theisland of never met it eitherin Quebec or theeastern provin c e anywhere we dosee it, the ungainlybill
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