WEALTH ON WINGS 



Every man is interested in that, whether or not he 

 owns a gun or has time to use it. 



At one time we raised a great many wildfowl 

 within our own national confines. Most of these 

 were bred along a north and south line passing 

 through what we call the states of the Middle West. 

 The Atlantic States had splendid shooting for gen- 

 erations, but the birds of Currituck and Chesapeake 

 were bred either north of our northern boundary 

 line or in grounds very close below it. As a matter 

 of fact the scoters known as seaducks along the 

 Atlantic coast fly for thousands of miles due south- 

 east from the regions where they breed. 



The line of flight of the canvasbacks and red- 

 heads has in it less latitude and more longitude; it 

 is flatter, and more to the east than the southeast. 

 These birds formerly bred in great numbers in the 

 Dakotas, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Alberta and 

 Manitoba. They hang round the wild-celery lakes, 

 even in their migrations ; and, having learned where 

 abundance of wild celery was to be had on the Atlan- 

 tic coast, they set up their ancient trading line be- 

 tween these breeding and feeding grounds until they 

 were shot out on both. 



The main breeding grounds for all the wildfowl 

 of the country have always been in the central or 

 western part of this continent say, from Mason 



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