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"Arter he'd eat a hull roast pig, I reckon leastwise that might make Harry lose his'n; but I'll be darned if two would be a sarcumstance to set before you, Frank, no how. Here's A , too, he don't never eat." "These wood-duck are delicious," answered the Commodore, who was very busily employed in stowing away his provant, "What a capital bird it is, Harry."
After resting awhile we proceeded on with the cart, tracing down the watercourse over a very rough and stony road on which the cart was upset, but without any serious damage, and passing several very large and fine water-holes with many teal and wood-duck upon them. At eight miles from where we lunched, we encamped with abundance of water, but very little grass.
'Now, if I can put their uniforms down on paper I'll know the Ducks as soon as I see them on a pond a long way off. So he set to work and drew what he could find. One of his friends had a stuffed Wood-duck, so the 'Boy-that-wanted-to-know' drew that from a long way off. He got another from an engraving and two more from the window of a taxidermist shop.
In this hollow tree the wood-duck reared her brood, and slid away each day to forage in yonder fen. In winter, nature is a cabinet of curiosities, full of dried specimens, in their natural order and position. The meadows and forests are a hortus siccus.
What ducks come down fly high, being harassed coming down from the north. I consider the southern Minnesota country practically cleaned out. MISSOURI: The birds threatened with extermination are the American woodcock, wood-duck, snowy egret, pinnated grouse, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, golden eagle, bald eagle, pileated woodpecker. MONTANA: Blue grouse.
NEW JERSEY: Ruffed grouse, teal, canvasback, red-head duck, widgeon, and all species of shore birds, the most noticeable being black-bellied plover, dowitcher, golden plover, killdeer, sickle-bill curlew, upland plover and English snipe; also the mourning dove. Upland plover, apparently killdeer, egret, wood-duck, woodcock, and probably others.
The lower part of the throat and breast is cinnamon speckled with white, but under the wings and sides towards the tail, grey, speckled and fringed with black; the back of the wings dark blue and black feathers. The wood-duck frequents close-wooded streams, little bays, and nooks, sitting upon old logs or the limbs of trees which have fallen into the water.
But another surprise awaited her. There was the clutter of short wings under the branches, and the sunlight flashed upon the iris throat of a wood-duck as it swung out of sight past her. But in this single glance Peggy recognized one of the latest and most precious of her acquisitions. There was no mistake now!
WYOMING: Whooping crane, trumpeter swan, wood-duck; mountain goat. ALBERTA: Passenger pigeon, whooping crane; bison. BRITISH COLUMBIA: A. Bryan Williams reports: "Do not know of any birds having become extinct." MANITOBA: Pigeon; bison, antelope, gray wolf. NEW BRUNSWICK: Pigeon. NOVA SCOTIA: Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, passenger pigeon. ONTARIO: Wild turkey, pigeon, Eskimo curlew.
The heat had become excessive, but she held her shawl with both hands drawn tightly over her shoulders. Suddenly a wood-duck darted out of the covert blindly into the opening, struck against the blasted trunk, fell half stunned near her feet, and then, recovering, fluttered away.
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