. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. THE RIVER VALLEYS 77 that was standing upon the shingle beside the river. I got up quite close to this bird and had a rising shot at him as he flew across the stream. I killed him quite dead, but it seemed ^. WILDGOOSE CAMP impossible to retrieve him, and we were rather disconsolately watching his body drift away when it struck us that Jones, who was very clever with the lasso, might manage to recover it at a point where the current brought it within reach of our side. We therefore galloped parallel to the bird along the bank, and after one or
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. THE RIVER VALLEYS 77 that was standing upon the shingle beside the river. I got up quite close to this bird and had a rising shot at him as he flew across the stream. I killed him quite dead, but it seemed ^. WILDGOOSE CAMP impossible to retrieve him, and we were rather disconsolately watching his body drift away when it struck us that Jones, who was very clever with the lasso, might manage to recover it at a point where the current brought it within reach of our side. We therefore galloped parallel to the bird along the bank, and after one or two ineffectual efforts, Jones succeeded in getting the lasso round him, and so dragged him in. " We next had lunch, which consisted of maU. As we sat waiting for the kettle to boil, several blue-winged teal (^Querquedula cfanopfera). passed over us and went down in a small marsh towards the Genguel. After these Jones had another stalk, and killed two. As he was returning a couple of geese flew over at about thirty-five yards distance, and he dropped the female quite dead. It is extraordinary what an amount of shot these geese will in a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh, 1876-1922; Moreno, Francisco Pascasio, 1852-1919; Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944; Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929; Britten, James, 1846-1924; Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938; Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931, illus; Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935. fmo sgn; Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo; Huntington Free Library. fmo. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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