WILD FOWL 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES 



AND 



BRITISH POSSESSIONS 



OR THE 



SWAN, GEESE, DUCKS, AND MERGANSERS 



OF 



NORTH AMERICA 



WITH ACCOUNTS OF THEIR HABITS, NESTING, MIGRA- 

 TIONS, AND DISPERSIONS, TOGETHER WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF THE ADULTS AND YOUNG, AND KEYS 

 FOR THE READY IDENTIFICATION OF THE SPECIES 



A book for the Sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to 



distinguish these -web-footed birds and to learn 



their ways in their native wilds 



DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT, F. R. S. E., ETC 



Ex-President of the American Ornithologists' Union 



Author of the New and Heretofore Unfigured Birds of North America : of 



the Illustrated Monographs of the Ant Thrushes (editions 1863 and 



1895), Grouse, Pheasants, Birds of Paradise, Hornbills, Cats, 



etc.: of the Classification and Synopsis of the Tro- 



chilidce : of the Shore Birds, and Gallinaceous 



Game fiirds of North America ; of 



. Wolf's Wild Animals, etc., etc. 



WITH SIXTY-THREE PLATES 



NEW YORK 

 FRANCIS P. HARPER 



1808 



