. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . y in the fifty-fourth parallel to Mexico and the Antilles. Throughouta great part of this vast space, or at least as far south as Florida and Mississippi,the Wood Duck is known to breed. In the interior they are also found in Missouri and along the woody bordersand still streams which flow into most of the great northwestern lakes of the The Wood Duck has indeed but little predilection for the seacoast,its favorite haunts being the solitary, deep a
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . y in the fifty-fourth parallel to Mexico and the Antilles. Throughouta great part of this vast space, or at least as far south as Florida and Mississippi,the Wood Duck is known to breed. In the interior they are also found in Missouri and along the woody bordersand still streams which flow into most of the great northwestern lakes of the The Wood Duck has indeed but little predilection for the seacoast,its favorite haunts being the solitary, deep and still waters, ponds, woody lakes,and the mill dams in the interior, making its nest often in decayed and hollowtrees bending over the water. Though many migrate, probably to the shores of the Mexican Gulf, numberspass the winter in the states south of Virginia. Early in February they are seenassociated by pairs on the inundated banks of the Alabama, and are frequentat the same season in the waters of west Florida. In Pennsylvania they usuallynest late in April or early in May, choosing the hollow of some broken or decayed 236. .■^ tree, and sometimes even constructing a rude nest of sticks in the forks ofbranches. The eggs, twelve or thirteen in number, are yellowish, rather-smallerthan those of the domestic hen, and they are usually covered with down, probablyplucked from the breast of the parent. The same tree is sometimes occupied by the same pair for several successiveyears in the nesting season. The young, when hatched, are carried down in thebill of the female and afterward conducted by her to the nearest water. Forthese places when once selected, if not disturbed, they sometimes show a strongpredilection, and are not easily induced to forsake the premises, however invadedby noise and bustle. While the female is sitting the male is usually perched onsome adjoining limb of the same tree, keeping watch for their common species is scarcely ever gregarious; th
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