May, 1920 
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tail, black; legs and feet, slate color; bill, 
black. Length, twenty inches. 
The black-bellied tree-duck is found in 
the Southern States nearest Mexico, as 
well as in Mexico and South America. 
Head, gray, cinnamon on top; throat, 
grayish white; neck, upper breast and 
back, cinnamon brown; middle back and 
rump, black; white tint on wing; lower 
part and sides of breast, yellowish 
brown; abdomen and flanks, black; bill, 
red ; legs and feet, flesh color. Length, 
about nineteen inches. Female closely 
resembles male. 
Both of these ducks nest in trees, as 
their names indicate. They are reported 
as not very wild or shy. They feed in 
corn-fields and are said to do consider- 
able damage to the crop in regions where 
they are plentiful. 
The tree-ducks are still to be added to 
the lists of game which I have bagged. 
The sportsman who goes to the marshes 
of southern California or to southern 
Texas or Mexico may shoot these birds 
along with the other ducks of the region. 
Next Article : River Duck Shooting. 
THE TRAGIC FATE OF 
BLACK JAKE 
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with irresistible force, climbed the 
meadow bank and in the twinkling of an 
eye, with the crash of a cannon shot, 
planed off the top of the shooting box as 
if it were cardboard, rushed back into 
the reeds fully forty feet, and was piled 
ten feet high where they had been sitting 
only a moment before. Startled and 
shocked as he had never been before. 
Hank turned to look for his boy. He, 
too, had jumped on the moving ice, and 
as he turned to face his father his coat 
front was covered with blood. “My 
God! Scouse,” he cried, “are you hurt?” 
“No,” said Scouse, “I ain’t hurt, its 
Jake’s blood. The ice was tod quick for 
me, and I couldn’t unsnap him in time. 
As I grabbed him the ice ran over the 
chain and pulled his leg from his living 
body, and he’s bleeding to death.” Taking 
the precious bird in his hand, Hank soft- 
ly stroked his beautiful feathers, while 
his eyes filled with tears. For a brief 
moment Jake looked up at his master, 
then his bright eyes began to slowly 
fade, a film came over them, and with a 
convulsive shudder the life went out of 
poor Black Jake, and he lay dead in his 
Master’s hand. 
W HEN Hank and his son had calmed 
down a little, they were horrified 
at the close call they had experi- 
enced. There could be no doubt that but 
for the warning quacking of the decoys, 
they would have had no time to get out 
of the box, and would be 1. ing dead under 
ten feet of ice, caught like rats in a trap, 
and crushed out of all recognition. 
Slowly they gathered up their belong- 
ings and sadly wended their way across 
the meadow to the shack. Hank rever- 
ently bearing the body of poor Black 
Jake, feeling that he could never replace 
him, and that he owed the dead bird a 
debt that now he could never repay. 
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