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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 
