. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America . ollection of some living, the birds came down fromthe Northland during the autumn in numbers that wereincredible, promising a continuance of the race have myself seen great masses of Ducks, and also ofGeese, rise at one time from the water in so dense a cloudas to obscure the sky, and every suitable water-coveredspot held some member of the Family throughout ourlimits. But those great armies of Wild Fowl will beseen no more in our land, only the survivors of th
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America . ollection of some living, the birds came down fromthe Northland during the autumn in numbers that wereincredible, promising a continuance of the race have myself seen great masses of Ducks, and also ofGeese, rise at one time from the water in so dense a cloudas to obscure the sky, and every suitable water-coveredspot held some member of the Family throughout ourlimits. But those great armies of Wild Fowl will beseen no more in our land, only the survivors of theirbroken ranks. Let these, then, have the protection whichis their due, and our advantage and profit to accord; stopall spring shooting within our borders, a time when thebirds not only are usually poor in flesh, but are matedand journeying northward in obedience to the command, be fruitful and multiply ; frown down all such bar-barous customs as killing for count, and then, with theimpartial enforcement of the laws upon all the people, aremnant at least of our noble Water Fowl may be pre-served to future WATER FOWL WHISTLING SWAN. f^F the two species of Swan indigenous to North^^ America, the present one is the smaller and morewidely dispersed. It ranges in the northern portions ofthe continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and fromthe Arctic regions south to California on the west, and tothe Carolinas on the east coast, being very abundant inwinter in Currituck Sound, North Carolina. It is alsofound in the Mississippi Nalley south to the Gulf of Mex-ico, and is common in Galveston Bay, Texas. It breedson both sides of the mountains in the Arctic regions; inthe interior chiefly, if it stops short of the Arctic Ocean,but if not,then on the coast and contiguous islands of thatsea. It nests in the marshes at the mouth of the Yukon,and also along that great river above the Delta, andon the shores about St. Michaels. On the Alaskancoast by the Arctic Sea this Swa
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