. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . ock of call birds to ensure successin attracting wild ones. With such a flock many wild Ducksor Geese may be lured to almost any country place wherethere is water, or even into a village. In the spring of 1908 Mr. J. T. Miner of Ki
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . ock of call birds to ensure successin attracting wild ones. With such a flock many wild Ducksor Geese may be lured to almost any country place wherethere is water, or even into a village. In the spring of 1908 Mr. J. T. Miner of Kingsville, Ont.,had thirteen tamed Canada Geese at a pond near his homein the village. Eleven wild birds came in and joined five of these were shot, the other six remained andbecame so fearless as to follow the tame Geese into a May 15 they flew very high in the air and left for thenorth. In March, 1909, thirty-two came, and only ten ofthese are known to have been shot, but two disappeared later,and on May 1 the flock left for the north. In March, 1910,eighteen came back, and two weeks thereafter there wereabout three hundred; thirty-six of these were shot. AboutApril 16 between fifty and sixty left, and the next day thephotograph represented in the accompanying illustration wastaken. I am indebted to Mr. P. A. Taverner of the Geological. PLATE rice in flower. (One-half natural size.) -{^RA^ CONSERVATION OF GAME BIRDS. 571 Survey at Ottawa for the photograph and the facts connectedwith it. (See Plate XXVI, facing page 509.) Wild-fowl may even be attracted into suitable ponds inthe largest cities in this way, provided no shooting is allowed,as in Central Park, New York, and in the smaller ponds ofBoston. Mr. Horace W. Wright has published in the Aukfor 1910 a paper on some rare wild Ducks wintering at Bos-ton, in which he states that in Jamaica Pond, Willow Pond,Leverett Pond and Chestnut Hill Reservoir wild Ducks remainmore or less through the win
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