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■ HUglii In \(ii:ui()iis |iikf or iiicki-rrl. liass aud troul. 

 in ponds and streams. 1 have on two different occa 

 sions seen biooli trout catch young birds — one an 

 Indigo Bunting and the other an awkward Maryland 

 Yellow Throat, which had accidentally gotten into 

 the water. 



Pickerel which are plentiful and which grow to good 

 size in the numerous ponds or lakes in the northeastern 

 section of Pennsylvania, often, I am told, catch 

 ducks, sometimes when nearly full grown, as well as 

 other birds which get into the water intentionally or 

 otherwise. 



Last summer I shot a warbler, at Lake Ganogo, a 

 very pleasant, healthful and romantic resort on the 

 Lehigh Valley Railroad, in Wyoming county. The bird 

 fell into the water of the lake, and when I had almost 

 reached it with a boat, a good sized black bass seizetl 

 it and disappeared from view. 



MUD HENS ARE CAUGHT. 



I have repeatedly been informed by fishermen and 

 egg-hunters along the Atlantic coast, in New Jersey 

 aud ^'irgiuia, where the Mud Hen or Clapper Rail 

 {Ballus longirostria crepitans) breeds in abundance, 

 that eels and several species of fishes destroy many 

 of the young rails. In the Florida waters the gar and 

 some other fishes have such a keen appetite that adult 

 ducks are often killed or maimed by them. I once shot 

 a drake Wood Duck in Florida, which fell in the water 

 about seventy-five yards from where I stood. Prob- 

 ably ten minutes elapsed before I could get the speci- 

 men, which from the way it kept moving and bobbing 

 about in the water I thought was only wounded, but 

 so injured that it could not fly or dive. When the duck 

 was retrieved T was siirpHsed to find that it had been 



