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UPLAND SHOOTING. 



if they are in the neighborhood of a large corn-field, 

 where they can go morning and evening for breakfast 

 and siapper, and will often go many miles to feed in 

 them. 



The green-wing teal leaves the South about the same 

 time as the mallard, or soon after. They make short 

 flights, dropping down often to feed in the sloughs. 



Next following the 

 green-wing teal, come 

 the pin-tails, dusky- 

 ducks, plain and hood- 

 ed mergansers, blue- 

 bills, American widg- 

 eons, butter-balls, small 

 gray ducks, scaup- 

 ducks, golden-eyes, red- 

 heads, canvas-backs, 

 ruddy-ducks, and 

 wood-ducks; and, last 

 of all, the blue-wing 

 teal leave the South 

 about the 1st of April 

 for their northern 

 haunts. Their flights 

 are short, and made 

 mostly in the night. 

 They feed in the sloughs and small streams on theii' way 

 north, and generally arrive at their breeding-grounds the 

 last of April or the first of May. 



The mergansers, blue-bills, red-heads, canvas-backs, 

 butter-balls, and ruddy-ducks usually leave the South in 

 jMarch. 



They make long flights and their passage from south 

 to north is made in a very short time. I do not think 

 they stop more than two or thi'ee times on the way to 



