RED-HEAD DUCK SHOOTING. 205 
shoot to my heart’s content. I had one hundred 
shells, McPherson twenty. Those he said he had 
brought along simply to shoot cripples. At six o’clock, 
just one hour from the time we commenced to shoot, I 
was out of shells. Mac. didn’t have one, and we picked 
up between seventy and eighty red-heads that I had 
killed, besides, there were five or six swimming about 
with broken wings, that could not be gathered. Had 
McPherson and myself had plenty of shells, I have no 
doubt we could have killed two hundred in the same 
time. As it was, I don’t believe I missed three out of 
the last twenty-five shot at. They would swing in on 
me and turn up their sides from twenty to thirty yards, 
and I just couldn’t miss if I had tried. That was the 
greatest hour of my life among ducks. 
Red-heads usually being shot over decoys, No. 6 is 
the size to use; that size, with plenty of good strong 
powder behind it will reach them in flight shooting, or 
when coming in over decoys, will lay them out effect- 
ually. 
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RED-HEAD DUCK. 
Anas Ferina—Fuligula Ferina. 
Adult Male.—Bill bluish, toward the end black, and 
about 2 1-4 inches long; irides, yellowish red. Adult 
male wiih the head, which is rather large, and the upper 
part of the neck all round dark reddish chestnut,brightest 
on the hind neck; lower part of the neck extending on 
the back and upper part of the breast, black ; abdomen, 
white, darker toward the vent, where it is barred with 
