230 CANADIAN WILDS. 



Although my canoe was within six feet of 

 the bird, it never moved, and it was only by the 

 closest scrutiny that I detected its presence. 



With a good silent dog playing in front of a 

 blind these ducks in the early spring will come 

 within short range, as will the black duck and 

 gray goose. They have keen eyesight and will 

 work in from a quarter of a mile to investigate 

 the dog. The dog of best color to attract ducks 

 is yellow or yellow and white. A pure white is 

 better than a dark colored, which latter only ap- 

 pears to scare them away. 



[This is an interesting contribution, for it 

 brings up a number of points about which there 

 has been more or less controversy in the past, 

 and one at least which is new to us. That Mr. 

 Hunter's duck brought her young to the water 

 in her bill is interesting and agrees with state- 

 ments made years ago in Forest and Stream 

 by Mr. George A. Boardman, who quoted a 

 Canadian informant as stating that the old 

 birds brought their young from the nests to the 

 water, carrying them in their bills, but that to 

 transport the young for a longer distance, the 

 birds carried the young pressed to the body by 

 the feet, a description which is not altogether 

 clear. 



Mr. Hunter declares that the whistling noise 

 made by the brass-eye does not come from the 



