. Propagation of wild birds; a manual of applied ornithology, treating of practical methods of propagation of quails, grouse, wild turkey, pheasants, partridges, pigeons and doves, and waterfowl, in America, and of attracting and increasing wild birds in general, including song-birds . by Thorn /.. Mallards at feeding time, Clove Valley Club. Young mallards raised at CIonc \alle\- Club, Xcw York, 1914 WILD DUCKS 119 duck-feed, like wild rice or wild celery, can be started, somuch the better, though ducks on a small pond are apt toexterminate it. Islands. Out in the great wildfowl
. Propagation of wild birds; a manual of applied ornithology, treating of practical methods of propagation of quails, grouse, wild turkey, pheasants, partridges, pigeons and doves, and waterfowl, in America, and of attracting and increasing wild birds in general, including song-birds . by Thorn /.. Mallards at feeding time, Clove Valley Club. Young mallards raised at CIonc \alle\- Club, Xcw York, 1914 WILD DUCKS 119 duck-feed, like wild rice or wild celery, can be started, somuch the better, though ducks on a small pond are apt toexterminate it. Islands. Out in the great wildfowl-breeding country ofthe Northwest there is no location more certain to harbourthe nests of wild ducks than islets in lonely lakes, preferablyovergrown with a tangle of low vegetation or thick one such grassy island in a large lake in SaskatchewanA. C. Bent and I found, in June, 1905, over one hundredwild ducks nests. In the grass or under low bushes werenesting the pintail, mallard, gadwall, baldpate, shoveller,blue-winged, green-winged, and cinnamon teals, greater andlesser scaups. White-winged scoters and American mer-gansers were flying about and certainly had nests. In therushes just out from shore we found nests of the canvasbackand redhead, and the ruddy duck also was nesting there-On the island I saw a brood of young Canada geese wi
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