LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

 Portrait of Author Frontispiece 



Facing 



Mallards in August vl 



The Ducks' Paradise — Map 2 



Young Mallards Going to Feeding Grounds . . 10 



A Lake Full of Ducks 14 



Bluebills Sunning 16 



Hatched in Connecticut 16 



Young Mallards on a New Jersey Preserve ... 24 



Wallace Evans' Game Farm 30 



Mallards Flushed on Rearing Ground .... 50 



Interior Hatching House 52 



Young Ducks Incubated by Electricity in New York . 56 



Dinner Time 62 



After Dinner — Young Mallards Returning to Lake . 66 

 Ducks at Lake Worth . . . . » . . .68 



Pin-tail Eggs 70 



Wild Ducks in Central Park, New York ... 70 



Egg-stealing Crow 80 



Decoy Owl 82 



Good Bag of Crows Shot Over a Decoy Owl ... 86 



A Scare-fox 88 



Bluebill Shot and Photographed by Bonnycastle Dale 98 



Gamekeeper's Cottage on an American Preserve . . 106 



A Market Gunner 126 



Wild Geese in Central Park, New York . . . 134 



Woodcock 146 



English Wild Fowler 156 



Pin-tails 160 



