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diver and the half-breeds of Hudson Bay the 

 pork duck. 



All the tricks of hiding attributed to this 

 duck by Netlje Blanchan, author of the book 

 from which I have taken the several names un- 

 der which the duck is known to American read- 

 ers, are quite true, and also other devices not 

 enumerated. For instance, when wounded I 

 have known it to dive and come up within a few 

 yards of my canoe with its head under a w r ater- 

 lily leaf and there remain, quite motionless, un- 

 til I noticed the center elevation of this single 

 leaf and fired at a venture with the result that 

 I killed the duck. 



On another occasion I noticed a wounded 

 brass-eye making toward the shore in very shal- 

 low water. The formation of the banks was 

 such that it was impossible for it to land and 

 hide. Nevertheless, toward that shore it had 

 dived, and never appeared above water. Push- 

 ing the canoe quietly along with my gun ready 

 in the other hand, I scanned every inch as I 

 went. Along the beach there was a solution of 

 mud almost as light as the water. The duck 

 had passed under this and came to the shore in 

 about five inches of water showing nothing but 

 its bill on the beach, the entire body being cov- 

 ered with mud, the exact counterpart of that 

 about it. 



