. Birds and nature . ongthe Brazos river, sixty miles from Galves-ton. In the early morning, as we wouldleave our boat and make our way to ourblinds, on some small inland pond where we had prepared for collecting, we wouldflush immense flocks of this duck, whichwould fly over our heads at rather a lowaltitude and continuously calling. Onseveral occasions we obtained specimensby firing into a flock while it was still sodark that we could scarcely define theoutlines of the individual birds. The Ful-vous Tree-Duck generally feeds in thenight and usually at a place several milesfrom the nesting si
. Birds and nature . ongthe Brazos river, sixty miles from Galves-ton. In the early morning, as we wouldleave our boat and make our way to ourblinds, on some small inland pond where we had prepared for collecting, we wouldflush immense flocks of this duck, whichwould fly over our heads at rather a lowaltitude and continuously calling. Onseveral occasions we obtained specimensby firing into a flock while it was still sodark that we could scarcely define theoutlines of the individual birds. The Ful-vous Tree-Duck generally feeds in thenight and usually at a place several milesfrom the nesting site. They leave thefeeding grounds on the first sign of ap-proaching day. During my stay of threemonths in the Brazos river region onlyon one or two occasions did I have an op-portunity to observe this bird by the lightof day. In form it resembles a miniatureswan. It stands very high on its legsand presents a wonderfully curious andgraceful appearance as it walks along theshore feeding on shellfish and FROM COL 371 FULVOUS TREE-DUCK. (Dendrocygna fulva ) Nearly >^ Life-size. 207 HOW THE SWIFTS CAME TO BUILD IN AUNT DORO-THYS CHIMNEY. Once upon a time there was a family ofHumming Birds who always spent thewinter in Mexico, In this family, besidesthe father and mother, there was a grand-father and grandmother, and also a great-grandfather and great-grandmother, andever so many children. It was the cus-tom of the Humming Bird family tospend Christmas day together, and theyassembled early in the morning in a beau-tiful live oak tree, the leaves of whichwere so much like holly leaves thatno Christmas wreaths were needed. Thetree was a handsome one and suitable inevery way for a Christmas HummingBird party. At last every one had comeexcept young Master Topaza HummingBird, who could not resist the temptationof flying from place to place along theway, thrusting his long bill, of which hewas very proud, into the beautiful blos-soms which he found, and taking a littles
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