70 YOUNG DUCKS ON THE POND 



when they discovered my presence, and with loud 

 squawks climbed high in the air and soon were out of 

 sight. "They will come back all right," said their 

 keeper. 



Many wild ducks now are bred in the New York 

 Zoological Park and in Central Park, New York. These 

 birds have learned that they are safe in the presence of 

 visitors to the parks, and, although they fly about and 

 some, no doubt, desert, they are easily approached. 

 Wild ducks which visit ducks on the preserves soon be- 

 come comparatively tame in the presence of the game- 

 keeper. The danger is not that the ducks will be so 

 wild as to desert when they are properly looked after 

 but that they may become too tame for sport. They 

 should be shot, as we shall observe later, when they are 

 away from the pond where they are fed. 



