86 AMERICAN GAME. 
when sleeping in close columns on the surface of the 
water. This method is, however, much reprobated by 
sportsmen, and that very justly, as tending beyond any 
other method to cause the fowl to desert their feeding | 
grounds. 
In conclusion, we earnestly recommend. both these 
beautiful birds to our sporting readers, both: as. objects ° 
of pleasurable pursuit and subjects of first rate feeds. 
A visit at this season to Seneca Lake, the Montezuma 
Meadows, or that region, could not fail to yield rare 
sport. 3 
