ORNAMENTAL POULTRY. 245 
THE AMERICAN WOOD DUCK—OR SUMMER DUCK. 
We have in this country many beautiful varieties of 
wild ducks, some of which we know are capable of do- 
mestication, and more which have not been experimented 
with. One of the former is the ‘Summer duck” of 
Southern and the ‘‘ Wood duck ” of the Northern States. 
Either name is appropriate, for it is the only duck which 
Fig. 92._AMERICAN WOOD DUCK. 
remains with us during breeding season, except now 
and then a stray pair of Mallards, and perhaps a pair 
of one or two other kinds are very rarely seen ; and its 
natural haunts are the deep quiet woods far from the 
dwellings of men. ‘The bird is rather rare in New Eng- 
land, especially so in the Eastern part, more plenty in 
New York, and abundant in Pennsylvania, and to the 
westward and south, wherever a wooded country offers 
