80 AMERICAN GAME. 



their explosion should entail on the head of the vender 

 the penalty of wilful murder. 



The Mallard is found frequently associating in large 

 plumps with the Pintail, or Sprigtail, another elegant 

 fresh water variety, the Dusky-Duck on fresh waters, the 

 Greenwinged Teal in winter to the southward, and with 

 the "Widgeon on the western waters. 



On the big and little pieces two large moist savannas 

 on the Passaic river in I^Tew Jersey, formerly famous for 

 their, snipe and cock grounds, but now ruined by the 

 ruthless devastations of pot-hunters and poachers I have 

 shot Mallard, Pintail, and Black Duck, over dead points 

 from setters, out of brakes, in which they were probably 

 preparing to breed, during early snipe-shooting; but 

 nowhere have I ever beheld them in such myriads as in 

 the small rice-lakes on the Severn, the Wye, and the 

 cold water rivers debouching into the northern part of 

 Lake Huron, known as the Great Georgian Bay, and on 

 the reed-flats and shallows of Lake St. Clair, in the 

 vicinity of Alganac, and the mouths of the Thames and 

 Che vail Ecartc rivers. 



I am satisfied that by using well-made decoys, or 

 stools, and two canoes, one concealed among the rice 

 and reeds, and the other paddling to and fro, to put" up 

 the teams of wild fowl and keep them constantly on the 

 move, such sport might be had as can be obtained in no 

 other section of this country, perhaps of the world ; and 

 that the pleasure would well repay the sportsman for a 



