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DUCK SHOOTING. 



name, is loud and resonant, and so closely resembles 

 that of the sandhill crane that it is not always easy to 

 distinguish the two apart. Authors connect the great 

 power and volume of the trumpeter's voice with the 

 curiously convoluted windpipe of the species. The 

 young birds are very good eating, while the older ones, 

 as a rule, are very tough and hardly edible. 



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