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meadows, where the tide waters meet the springs and 

 rivulets which drain the uplands, along the margin of 

 meadow-watering brooklets, or on wide, marshy, and at 

 times submerged tracts, such as the drowned lands of 

 Orange County, New York, the snipe meadows of New 

 Jersey, the saline districts of Western New York, and 

 thousands and tens of thousands of similar regions, north, 

 west, east and south, throughout the United States and 

 British Provinces. 



In all these localities in the autumn and the spring, 

 there is to be had immense sport ; the varieties of duck 

 generally killed, all of which are excellent, especially 

 where there are wild rice lakes, as in Canada and the 

 Western States, are the mallard and duck, Anas Bosc- 

 bas ; the pin-tailed duck, Anas acuta ; the blue-winged 

 teal, Anas discors ; the green-winged teal, Anas Caroli- 

 nensis, a likeness of which adorns the last page, showing 

 the lunated bar across the scapulars, which distinguishes 

 him from his European cousin-german ; the golden eye, 

 Anas clangula, which is abundant on Lake Champlain; 

 the summer duck, Dendronessa sponsa ; the buffet-headed 

 duck, Anas albeola ; and the dusky duck, Anas obscura; 

 which last must be added, although properly it is a marine 

 rather than a fresh-water duck. The canvas-back, red- 

 head, scaup, widgeon, and ring-necked duck, all properly 

 and chiefly sea-ducks, are found on the western rivers, the 

 great lakes, and the head waters of the Mississippi and 

 Missouri, where also wild geese, wild swans, and a second 

 variety of that noble bird, unknown elsewhere, the great 

 trumpeter swan, Cycnus Buccinator, with an alar extent 



