. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. n. ' â §fm»i-' Kri, jiftsturo*), the Mallard. e origin of our domestic jrthem parts of Europe, it migrates in countless In Lincolnshire incre- ken in a very ingenious 3difice of poles and nets, .^ery wide at the mouth. The ducks are induced of a dog, and by some 1 water. They are then where they are caught )gy, gives the following vild ducks practised in these birds, five or six I to represent ducks, und r bottoms so as to float anchored in a favourable ealment of biiish, &c. on edthat "the M
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. n. ' â §fm»i-' Kri, jiftsturo*), the Mallard. e origin of our domestic jrthem parts of Europe, it migrates in countless In Lincolnshire incre- ken in a very ingenious 3difice of poles and nets, .^ery wide at the mouth. The ducks are induced of a dog, and by some 1 water. They are then where they are caught )gy, gives the following vild ducks practised in these birds, five or six I to represent ducks, und r bottoms so as to float anchored in a favourable ealment of biiish, &c. on edthat "the Mallard, Pintail,and leir neba (beaks) in the soil, and nuzitiy fuu't tograxe, and a slromjr NATURAL HISTORY. 3()3 :4,oro The appearance of these usually attracts passing flocks which alight, and are shot down. Sometimes eight or ten ol these painted wooden ducks are on a frame m various swimming postures, and secured to the bow of the gunners skifl". prok^cting before it in siich a way that the weight of the frame sinks the figures to their depth ; the skitt is then dressed with sedge or coarse gi-ass, m an arttui manner, ,w low as the water's edge ; and under cover of this, wluct. appears like a party of ducks swimming by a island, the cmnner floats down sometimes to the very skirt of a whole congi-egated multitude, and pours in a .lestructive and re- i,eated fire of shot among them. In winter, when detached pieces of ice are floating in the nver, of the -runners on the Delaware paint their whole skifF or canoe white, and laying themselves flat at the bottom with their hand over the side silently managing a small paddle, direct it imperceptibly into or near a flock before the ducks have dis- tin<niished it irom a floating mass of ice, and generally do great execution among them. A whole flock hai^ sometimes been thus surprised asleep with their heads under then '"S Tame Duck is so well known as to need no description.
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