WiILp-FowL or WIitp-Fow! 
as the place where I found two Ducks’ nests new 
tonme. iter come over the burnt tract Ipulled 
up the tops of my boots and waded along the 
shore, some rods out, among clumps of long grass. 
Away went a brownish Duck, with grey wings, 
from a tussock a little beyond me,—a Redhead, I 
saw at once. There was a very large basket-nest 
of dry rushes, 
lined with down, 
and a no less size- 
able assortment 
of eggs, fifteen 
of them I finally 
counted, Hach 
egg, too, was 
fare. nearly 
white, with a 
faint greenish 
tinge and a shell so smooth and hard as to remind 
one ofa billiard ball. Altogether it was a large and 
interesting discovery. 
At this point I waded ashore and had no sooner 
set foot on dry land than a Blue-winged Teal flushed 
from the prairie grass, and I found her eight fresh 
eggs in a nest of grass and down similar to those 
already found. From this spot I had gone but a 
short distance, when out went another Teal, and 
directly I was inspecting eight eggs more. Hav- 
ing by this time rested a little, I again tried wad- 
ing, and very soon had the pleasure of seeing a 
female Shoveler unwillingly flutter out from some 
very thick erass) near me: 1 had been told: that 
fnisaspecies usually mested on the dry prairie, 
NEST OF REDHEAD 
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