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their playgrounds, which may be in the same 
field, where they usually stay until about three o’clock 
p.m. This constitutes the second flight. 
In the spring mallards and pintails are frequently 
to be seen feeding all through the day, especially in 
wet weather, and traveling backward and forward from 
water holes to feeding places; but this does not detract 
from the general usage, for ducks, taken collectively, 
follow the above order. 
About three o'clock p. m., they begin to drift off, if 
undisturbed, to their feeding grounds again; where 
they stay until about sunset, when they fly off to their 
roosting grounds in bunches, singles and pairs. These 
constitute the afternoon and evening flights. The 
divers are conspicuous by their absence in regard to 
these flights and grounds, except upon large tracts of 
water, where the flights of both lie over the same ter- 
ritory, although they seek and use different grounds. 
A roosting ground is situated in some quiet, 
sequestered bay or weedy corner of some large lake 
er body of water, where weeds, canes, flags and 
grasses abound; in the middle of some swamp, slough 
or musquaid, where there is some open water sur- 
rounded by grasses or canes, when they can swim 
about and through them, pick up seeds and gambol 
around in the heavy growth without fear of molesta- 
tion; but, judging from the splashing, quacking and 
general disturbance which continues throughout the 
night, especially when numbers are flocked together, 
it would hardly convey the idea of a sleeping place. 
Most of the non-divers roost apart, by themselves, 
although pintails can frequently be found with yellow-- 
leg mallards and greenwinged teals in the spring mi- 
