T H F 



WILD' FOWL 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES 



AND 



BRITISH POSSESSIONS 



OR THE 



SWAN, GEESE, DUCKS, AND MERGANSERS 



OF 



NORTH AMERICA 



WITH ACCOUNTS OF THEIR HABITS, NESTING, MIGRA- 

 TIONS, AND DISPERSIONS, TOGETHER WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF THE ADULTS AND YOUNG, AND KEYS 

 FOR THE READY IDENTIFICATION OF THE SPECIES 



A hook for the Sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to 



distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn 



their ways in their native wilds 



BY 



DANFEL GIRAUD ELLIOT, F. R. S. E., etc. 



Ex-President of the American Ornithologists' Union 



Author of the New and Heretofore Unfigured Birds of North America : of 



the Illustrated Monographs of the Ant Thrushes Ceditions iSbs and 



iSqf), Grouse, Pheasants, Birds of Paradise, Hornbills, Cats, 



etc.! of the Classification and Synopsis of the Tro- 



chilidce ; of the Shore Birds, and Gallinaceous 



Game Birds of North America; of 



Wolf's Wild Animals, etc., etc. 



WITH SIXTY-THREE PLATES 



NEW YORK 



FRANCIS P. HARPER 



1898 



