PRESERVING AND LURING THE DUCK in 



hundred head. Even in what is anything but a duck 

 district, upland far from the coast and from water 

 frequented by the birds, ponds have been made suc- 

 cessful to the extent of yielding a head of from fifty to 

 a hundred in the season. The experiment is always 

 worth trying if there seems any likelihood at all that 

 it may succeed. 



Wild duck do not come within the meaning of the 

 term game, in England, Ireland, and Wales, though 

 (40 and 41 Viet. c. 78) they are counted as game 

 in Scotland. With regard to the protection of their 

 eggs, however, they are in all cases game according 

 to the provisions of the Game Act of 1831. Although 

 wild duck are not within the statutory meaning of 

 game in England, Ireland, and Wales, the birds, up 

 to a certain point, can be legally protected by owners 

 who have reared them. This limited right of pro- 

 perty in home-reared birds only exists as long as they 

 are not allowed full liberty of flight ; full liberty not 

 being given that is, the birds not being allowed 

 liberty by night and day any person taking wild 

 duck without lawful permission renders himself liable 

 to prosecution for larceny. Scotland excepted ; when 

 home-reared duck are allowed their full natural liberty, 

 tenants or owners of land which they visit, or over 

 which they pass, are legally entitled to kill them as 



