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shoot to my heart's content. I had one hundred 

 shells, McPherson twenty. Those he said he had 

 brought along simply to shoot cripples. At six o'clock, 

 just one hour from the time we commenced to shoot, I 

 was out of shells. Mac. didn't have one, and we picked 

 up between seventy and eighty red-heads that I had 

 killed, besides, there were five or six swimming about 

 with broken wings, that could not be gathered. Had 

 McPherson and myself had plenty of shells, I have no 

 doubt we could have killed two hundred in the same 

 time. As it was, I don't believe I missed three out of 

 the last twenty-five shot at. They would swing in on 

 me and turn up their sides from twenty to thirty yards, 

 and I just couldn't miss if I had tried. That was the 

 greatest hour of my life among ducks. 



Red-heads usually being shot over decoys, No. 6 is 

 the size to use ; that size, with plenty of good strong 

 powder behind it will reach them in flight shooting, or 

 when coming in over decoys, will lay them out effect- 

 ually. 



BED-HEAD DUCK. 

 Anas Ferina Fuligula Ferina. 



Adult Male. Bill bluish, toward the end black, and 

 about 2 1-4 inches long ; irides, yellowish red. Adult 

 male with the head, which is rather large, and the upper 

 part of the neck all round dark reddish chestnut,brightest 

 on the hind neck ; lower part of the neck extending on 

 the back and upper part of the breast, black ; abdomen, 

 white, darker toward the vent, where it is barred with 



