CHAPTER XVII 



Wild fowl — Duck and their habitat — French River — 

 Temagami — Outskirts of Algonquin Park — Manitoba, 

 Saskatchewan and Alberta provinces — Wood duck, pintail, 

 canvas-back, etc. — Game — The Canadian rough grouse — 

 The sooty, Oregon and grey-ruffed species— Ptarmigan classi- 

 fication — Prairie chicken — Black-game and capercailzie — 

 Pheasants, partridges, quail — Game characteristics — High 

 mountain and wood species — The sporting quail. 



WILD fowl are abundant in the Dominion. 

 Duck include all the known species. The 

 swamps and lakes adjoining the great railway 

 arteries bear witness to the abundant supply. The 

 shooting season was just opening on my return, and 

 at several of the stations passengers could be seen 

 with dogs and guns laden with the spoil. In Ontario 

 the lakes throughout the province hold a large 

 number of summer duck, and when the hard weather 

 sets in in the north, the migratory birds travel 

 further south, and Erie, Huron, and the rivers and 

 streams in every direction slightly removed from 

 human haunts, are abundantly stocked. The wild 

 rice marshes on Lake Erie islands are a favourite 



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