‘80 AMERICAN GAME. 
their explosion should entail on the head of the vender 
the penalty of wilful murder. 
The Mallard is found frequently associating in large 
plumps with the Pintail, or Sprigtail; another elegant 
. fresh water variety, the Dusky-Duck on fresh waters, the 
Greenwinged Teal in winter to the southward, and with 
the Widgeon on the western waters. 
On the big and little pieces—two large moist savannas 
on the Passaic river in New Jersey, formerly famous for 
their snipe and cock grounds, but now ruined by the 
ruthless devastations of pot-hunters and poachers—I have 
shot Mallard, Pintail, and Black Duck, over dead points 
from setters, out of brakes, in which they were probably 
preparing to breed, during early snipe-shooting; but 
nowhere have I ever beheld them in such myriads as in 
the small rice-lakes on the Severn, the Wye, and the 
cold water rivers debouching into the nortliern part of 
Lake Huron, known as the Great Georgian Bay, and on 
the reed-flats and shallows of Lake St. Clair, in the 
vicinity of Alganac, and the mouths of the Thames and 
Chevail Ecarté rivers. 
I am satisfied that by using well-made decoys, or 
stools, and two canoes, one concealed among the rice 
and reeds, and the other paddling to and fro, to put up 
the teams of wild fowl and keep them constantly on the 
move, such sport might be had as can be obtained in no 
other section of this country, perhaps of the world; and 
that the pleasure would well repay the sportsman for a 
