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American Bittern — Its general Distribution — Appearance — Eggs and 

 Nest — Excellent Flesh — The Little Bittern — Golden Plover — 

 Different from European Bird — The Ring Plover — Highly Esteemed 

 — " Killdeer" — The American Woodcock — Distinct from European 

 one — Dimensions and Colouring — Its Range — Localities — Habits — 

 Season for Shooting — Coverts — Mosquitoes — Difficulty of Shooting 

 — ^Dogs necessary — Migration — The American Snipe — Found in 

 Bushy Ground — Compared with European Snipe — Nest and Eggs — 

 Migration to South — Birds left behind — Shooting Season — Diminu- 

 tion of Snipe — Return in Spring — Curlew — Esquimaux Curlew — 

 Sandpipers — The American RaU — Its Excellence — Plumage, Habits, 

 and Flight pp. 167—181 



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Extraordinary Quantity of Wild-Fowl — Number of Geese annually pass- 

 ing over Canada — Breeding Grounds in the North — British and 

 American Species and Varieties of Anatidaa — The Trumpeter Swan 

 — ^Peculiar to North America — The American Swan — The Canada 

 Goose — Annual Migration — Cautious Flight — ^Lost in Fogs — ^Domes- 

 tication of — Return to Wild Life — The White-Fronted Goose — 

 General Disti-ibution of — Plumage — The Snow Goose — ^Note of — 

 Its Food — Delicacy of Flesh — The Brent Goose — Seaward Flight — 

 The Wild Duck or Mallard — Driven southward in Winter — Stray 

 Birds — Change of Plumage in Male — Methods of shooting — The 

 Shoveller — Flesh highly esteemed — Form and Peculiarities of Bill 

 — Handsome Plumage — Appearance of Young — Assimilation of 

 Plumage — Similarity to European Shoveller — The GadwaU — Its 

 Shyness and Cunning — Swiftness of Flight — Signification of " Gad- 

 wall" — ^Number and Colour of Eggs — The American Pintail — 

 Superiority of Flesh — Singular Change of Plumage — Feeding in 

 the Forest — Sleeping on open Water — How to approach — Colour 

 of Eggs erroneously described — The American Teal — Compared 

 Avith European — Difference of Opinion concerning — Plumage of Male 

 and Female — Largo Size of Nest — The Blue-winged Teal — Rude- 

 ness of Nest — Excellence of Flesh — Dislike to Cold — Return in 

 Spring — Peculiarity of Flight — Favourite Resorts — The American 

 Widgeon — Different from European — Autumn Migration in Flocks 



