LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portrait of Author ... . Frontispiece 



Facing 

 Page 



Mallards in August .... . . vi 



The Ducks' Paradise — Map 2 



Young Mallards Going to Feeding Grounds . . 10 



A Lake Full op Ducks 14 



Bluebills Sunning . . 16 



Hatched in Connecticut . . . 16 



Young Mallards on a New Jersey Preserve . . 24 



Wallace Evans' Game Farm 30 



Mallards Flushed on Rearing Ground .... 50 



Interior Hatching House 52 



Young Ducks Incubated by Electricity in New York . 56 



Dinner Time 62 



After Dinner — Young Mallards Returning to Lake . 66 



Ducks at Lake Worth ... . . 68 



Pin-tail Eggs .... ... 70 



Wild Ducks in Central Park, New York ... 70 



Egg-stealing Crow ... ... 80 



Decoy Owl .82 



Good Bag of Crows Shot Over a Decoy Owl ... 86 



^y \\ A Scare-fox . . ... . . 88 



\ Bluebill Shot and Photographed by Bonnycastle Dale 98 

 Gamekeeper's Cottage on an American Preserve . .106 



A Market Gunner 126 



Wild Geese in Central Park, New York . . . 134 



/Woodcock . . 146 



English Wild Fowler 156 



! Pin-tails 160 



