246 AMERICAN GAME. 
ance of that lovely river throughout the summer by 
gangs of ruffianly loafers, with whom the neighboring 
town of Newark abounds beyond any other town of its 
size in the known world, boating upon its silvery surface 
day and night, and rendering day and night equally 
hideous with their howls and blasphemies. 
Before proceeding to the description of these birds it 
is well to observe that it will be found the better way, 
in approaching them, as indeed ad?Z wild fowl, to work, 
if possible, up wind to them; not that wild fowl have 
the power, as some pretend, of scenting the odor of the 
human enemy on the tainted gale, as is undoubtedly the 
case with deer and many other quadrupeds, but that 
their hearing is exceedingly acute, and that their heads 
are pricked up to listen, at the occurrence of the least 
unusual sound, and at the next moment—Aey, presto /— 
they are off. 
The little cut at the head of this paper, for the spirited 
and faithful execution of which the author and artist 
must be permitted to return his acknowledgments to his 
_ friend, Mr. Brightly, represents a favorite feeding-ground 
of the various tribes of water fowl, as is indicated by 
the large gaggle of geese passing over, from right to 
left, and the trip of green-wings alighting to the call of 
a clamorous drake in the background. On a rocky spur 
of the shore, in the right foreground, is a male Green- 
Winged Teal, in the act of springing, with his legs 
already gathered under him 3; and, still nearer to the front 
