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The God of the Open Air. 
breeding season, as. now that food is more easily procurable, it 
will be again possible to use incubators. Young Mallard are 
quite easy to rear artificially; the principal thing seems to be to 
keep them away from water. If allowed to swim before the\ 
are practically fully feathered, they almost invariably succum.) 
to cramp, and. even if they do survive, they are usually more or 
less rickety. 
About the most attractive of the smaller Waterfowl are 
to my mind the Tree Ducks. (Jf these I have kept the White 
frontecVand the Fulvous. The latter arc great divers, obtaining 
a considerable i)ortion of their food from the bottom of the 
pond. They remain under water a long time, longer, I think, 
than either the Red-crested Pochard or the Rosy-billed Ducks. 
The W'liitc-faced Ducks seem to jirefer feeding in the shallowe; 
WMler, as did their relatives, the Red-billed Whistling Ducks 
that 1 tised to sec and occasionally shoot in Western America. 
Ncitiier of these birds attempted to nest w ith me during the thre- 
years 1 kepi thcni. but I am not certain that 1 had true pairs. 
1 have nol .-.ecu tlieni perching in the trees, although they had 
])lentv of chances of doing so. 
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Tlie God of tlie Open Air. 
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Hion W ho hast made Thy dwelling fair 
With flowers beneath, above the starry lights, 
And set Thine altars everywhere 
( )n mountain heights. 
In woodlands dim with many a dream. 
In valleys bright with springs. 
And on tlie curving capes of every stream; 
Thon W ho hast taken to Thyself the wings 
( )f morning, to abide 
Upon the secret places of the sea. 
