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Wild turkey breeding-stock in enclosure 68 



Pheasant breeding-pens, Evans' Game Farm .... 69 



Single pheasant breeding-pen, Sherburne, New York . . 69 



Pheasant rearing-field 76 



Breeding-field for pheasants, Clove Valley Club, New York 76 



Fence of pheasant rearing-field and vermin- traps . . . 77 



Hatching-house. Putting out hens to feed 77 



Golden and silver pheasants 80 



Feeding young pheasants, Clove Valley Club .... 81 



Breeding harem of pheasants 81 



Young pheasants caught for shipment 81 



Tinamou, the South American species bred by William 



Rockefeller 96 



Gray or " Hungarian " partridges 96 



Mourning dove 97 



Crows shot by a farmer 97 



Box trap for vermin 98 



Four predatory cats 98 



Skunk in trap 99 



Gray fox caught by front paw 99 



Wild ducks in Texas 118 



Swans keeping open a hole in the ice . . . . . . . 118 



Mallards at feeding time ., 119 



Young mallards raised at Clove Valley Club 119 



Mallards and black ducks raised on Evans' Game Farm . 122 



Henry Cook feeding some of his wild ducks 123 



Mallards raised by a farmer in Connecticut 123 



Rearing -field for mallards, Clove Valley Club . . . . 128 



Our " duck farm " in Manitoba wilderness 128 



Can vasbacks in artificial pool 129 



Wild ducks in winter quarters 129 



Mr. Heywood's method of wintering waterfowl . . . . 132 



Canvasbacks at Branchport, New York 133 



Wild black ducks on Lanier preserve 133 



Son of author feeding " wild "ducklings, gadwalls, etc. . . 140 



