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FOREST AND STREAM 
September, 1921 
“OLD RELIABLE ” PARKER 
Here’s a sample of shot gun “reliability.” 
Mark Arie, -with a Single Barrel PARKER, broke 495 x 500 targets 
at the New Jersey State Shoot, and 99 of them were at 22 yards. 
He also made a long run of 264, of which 96 were broken at the 22 yard mark. 
The Double Championship was won by 
Fred Plum ; 44 x 50 First 
Elmer Gardner 41 x 50 Second 
Fred Slater 40 x 50 Third 
They all used PARKER DOUBLE Barrel guns which, we might add, are also mighty 
“reliable.” 
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Catalogue and full information for the asking. 
PARKER BROS • 9 Gun Makers Meriden, Conn., U.S.A. 
New York Salesrooms, 25 Murray St. 
A. W. du Bray, Pacific Coast Agent, P, O. Box 102, San Francisco 
SMITH GUNS 
ARE 
CONVINCING GUNS 
They have stood the test of 36 years in the held 
and at the traps 
SMITH GUNS NEVER SHOOT LOOSE 
“The Gun that Speaks for Itself” 
Send for Catalog No. 319 
THE HUNTER ARMS CO., INC. 
Fulton, N. Y. 
Export Office : 5 State St. 
New York City 
McDonald & Linforth, Pacific Coast Representatives 
739 Call Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. 
FOLDING PUNCTURE-PROOF CANVAS BOATS 
Light, easy to handle, no leaks or repalri; cheek as ban at* 
carry by hand; safe for family; all sizes ; non-slnkabla; stronger 
than wood; used by U. S. and Foreign tkrrernmentt. Awarded 
First Prize at Chicago and St. Louis World's Fain. We it ena 
boats for Outboard Motors. Catalog. 
Kino Foldlno Canvas Boat Ca.. 428 Harrlsan St.. Kalamazaa. Mlsfc 
legs and feet pale flesh color. In sum- 
mer plumage the males and females re- 
semble each other. 
The blue- wings are shot along the At- 
lantic seaboard, often with the sea- 
ducks on the brackish bays and sounds, 
although they are far more common 
in the marshes of the Middle States. 
On the Sandusky marshes in Ohio, a 
club record shows more blue-wings 
killed each year than green-wings. In 
1890 the totals for the season were 723 
blue-wings, 419 green-wings ; in 1894, 
241 blue-wings, 92 green-wings; in 1897, 
102 blue-wings, 34 green-wings; in 1900, 
276 blue-wings, 185 green-wings. Al- 
though this record is not to date, the 
order of abundance of these ducks no 
doubt remains the same during seasons 
just past. Further west and on the 
Pacific Coast these figures would be re- 
versed. 
Thousands of teal are shot each win- 
ter in the vast rice fields of the South, 
and they are probably nowhere more 
abundant than in the marshes of Lou- 
isiana and Texas. 
The male green-wing is the handsom- 
est of the three teal. Male: Head and 
neck rich chestnut, broad band of glossy 
green running from eyes to nape of 
neck; chin black; upper back and 
sides finely marked with waving black 
and white lines; lower back brownish 
gray; broad white bar in front of 
wings ; wings dull gray, tipped with 
buff; wing mirrow or speculum rich 
green bordered by black bar tipped 
with white; breast pinkish brown spot- 
ted with black; underparts grayish 
white; bill black; legs and feet gray. 
Female: Head and neck streaked with 
light reddish brown on dark brown 
ground; chin and throat pale huff; 
upper parts mottled brownish and buff ; 
wings same as male, but with less 
green; breast dark buff clouded with 
dusky spots ; underparts grayish white ; 
bill, legs and feet same as male. 
A SPORTSMAN who has shot only 
the mallards or canvas-backs or 
other ducks of large size will hardly 
believe that the diminutive green-wing 
is a duck when he first sees it passing 
in the air and will be likely to mistake 
it for one of the shore-birds. 
I recall one morning on the bay when 
my companion and I had just finished 
putting out the duck decoys and were 
spreading the cut rushes over the decks 
of our sneak-boats to conceal them, on 
a point of the marsh. It was still too 
dark to shoot, and the furthest decoys 
could hardly be distinguished on the 
water in the dusk. Suddenly, and as 
silently as a shadow, a tiny dim ob- 
ject whisked past us, flitted over the 
decoys for a moment and disappeared 
in the thick gray. I remarked to my 
companion that it was a snipe, and he 
agreed. A few minutes later, when 
we had settled ourselves in the boats, 
a little shadowy object again flew by, 
but this time dropped into the water 
among the decoys where we could barely 
see it in the wan light. This aroused 
my suspicions for the water was too 
deep for a snipe or bay-bird to stand 
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