86 AMERICAN GAME. 



when sleeping in close columns on the surface of the 

 water. This method is, however, much reprobated by 

 sportsmen, and that very justly, as tending beyond any 

 other method to cause the fowl to desert their feeding 

 grounds. 



In conclusion, we earnestly recommend both these 

 beautiful birds to our sporting readers, both as objects 

 of pleasurable pursuit and subjects of first rate feeds. 

 A visit at this season to Seneca Lake, the Montezuma 

 Meadows, or that region, could not fail to yield rare 

 sport. 



