. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . ^ yi^rcoks SC.\UP ASLtl:.i. the wind. jNIindful of their former experience, the ducks attain a height (_)ftwo or three times that at which they entered the harbor and, strong in theadded confidence of numbers, the serried host, some forty companies abreast,sweeps over the spit in unison—a beautiful and impressive sight. Some fiveminutes later a second movement of a similar nature is organized by half asmany birds remaining: while a third wave, containing onlv a hintdred or so
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . ^ yi^rcoks SC.\UP ASLtl:.i. the wind. jNIindful of their former experience, the ducks attain a height (_)ftwo or three times that at which they entered the harbor and, strong in theadded confidence of numbers, the serried host, some forty companies abreast,sweeps over the spit in unison—a beautiful and impressive sight. Some fiveminutes later a second movement of a similar nature is organized by half asmany birds remaining: while a third wave, containing onlv a hintdred or so oflaggards, leaves the harbor destitute of Scaups. Before the advent of the white man the Indians had methods of theirown for obtaining these abundant fowls in wholesale fjuantities. Accordingto Sucklev, long nets were stretched from pole to pole along these narrowsand-spits just before the evening , and the birds, ncjt ha\ing been 796 TIIK SCAll DICK. molested upmi entering tlieir feeding gmunds, fell easv \iclinis as thev en-deavored to breast the spit at sunset. 1^ire hnnting was also a faxor
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