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MALLARD DUCK. 
(Anas Boschas.) 
Tis said, that when once a Mallard chooses her mate 
And death, or accident, destroys her lover, 
She mourns her loss, submits to fate, 
But during that year, chooses no other. 
Nor a bird in the United States is more familiarly 
known than the Mallard. It is seen throughout the 
Western States and Territories, and the chief object of 
pursuit in wild fowl shooting. Their habits, resorts and 
the best methods to hunt them successfully are so fully 
treated of in other parts of this volume, that it would 
be like adding surplusage to an explanative treatise, 
were I to refer to them very fully here. 
Their migration begins in early spring ; indeed, be- 
fore spring has actually come, they wend their flight 
