AMONG THE WATER FowL 
I have mentioned kept flying up, or were out in 
the water within sight. Thus there were eleven 
species of wild Ducks in that one locality, and all 
of them in good numbers. This is a Dakota duck- 
slough at its best. 
After a quiet Sunday in camp, our party being 
increased to four by a local guide and a visiting 
ornithologist, we made a trip to the ‘‘ Enchanted 
Isles,’’ described in preceding pages. It was the 
23d of May, beautiful, calm, and bright. We carted 
a boat on a) buckboard, and wisited cach? ofmtme 
four islands, finding plenty of eggs of Cormorants 
and Ring-bills and a few scattering nests of Pin- 
tails, Gadwalls and Mallards—most of the Ducks 
having not yet nested. But there were some dis- 
coveries that I must describe in detail. We had 
been but a short time on’ the Cormorant Island 
when the guide 
called out to me. 
It was but a few 
steps to where 
he stood. ibyaaa 
clump of tall dry 
weeds. In the 
midst of them 
was a great bed 
of stems and 
grass, lined with 
“ PULLING ASIDE THE DOWN, WE FOUND DISCLOSED 
TO VIEW SIX ENORMOUS CHALKY-WHITE EGGS” 
NEST OF THE (WILD) CANADA GOOSE an abundance of 
white down, that seemed to fill the nest. But there 
was something else white! Pulling aside the down 
we found disclosed to view six enormous chalky- 
white eggs, each -as -big)-as two or three. Ducks 
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