Feathered game of the Northeast (1907) (14755145242)

Identifier: featheredgameofn00ric (find matches)
Title: Feathered game of the Northeast
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Rich, Walter Herbert, 1866-
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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row the sail over us and over the boat. Gripa corner of our covering in your left hand andcarry it across you, then your gun in the righthand, lean back in the stern of the boat withjust your eye uncovered, keeping a sharp look-out always, and the old iron where it can bethrown quickly into action. Such an arrange-ment makes a blind hardly to be suspected bythe wisest campaigner and the ducks will oftencome in quite near. A gunner so placed will attimes get good shooting when a competitor onshore cannot get a shot. Try it some time whenyou see them passing every point and ledge outof gun-shot. Another point; make sure yourdecoys are good ones. Our friend is very dis-criminating in his tastes and prefers to befooled artistically. Got enough, have you? Well, after the sunis up the flight flags. The main body is on someinshore feeding ground, and unless some mis-guided mortal will try to scull them we mayas well quit. I am nearly frozen! How areyou? And we are both ready to pull the boat
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a-Joa o OQ ROCKY MOUNTAIN GARROT 351 home—one of the few times that men are will-ing to quarrel for the chance to toil for the com-mon good. The Whistlers flesh is held in slight esteemduring the winter months when its diet is madeup of mussels and shellfish from the unfailinglarder of the sea, the last refuge of our ducks incold weather, but on the inland waters wherethey are among the earliest visitors in thespring, and during the brighter times of sum-mer and early fall when a vegetable diet is af-forded, they are more than passable for the ta-ble. Indeed, at any time they are not so strongin their flavor as their seafowl neighbors. How dull and monotonous these summer daysmust be after their winter-long struggle to keeptheir bodies from the soup-kettle and their sldnsfrom the taxidermists shelves! ROCKY MOUNTAIN GARROT. BAR-ROWS GOLDEN-EYE. (Clangula islandica.) A western relative of our typical bird, ofsomewhat rare occurrence in the east. It dif-fers a little from the common v