to walk oat into tho hoarier rioo at tbo oidoo and boro tbo grain woo 
traapled and bant oror by tbo bordoa of bird*. Tbo bauds of rite in 
which tbo duok* bad boon working driod and turned a light /allow oo 
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that with praotisa thoy ooold bo diatingoiabad at * distanoo against 
tbo dark groan of tbo surrounding areas. If undiaturbad tbo birds re- 
turned each night to oontlnuo food in g whsro thoy bad otoppod on tbo 
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preceding occasion. I watched fields in whieb tbo birds olaanad oat 
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tbo rico in an area 200 yards long by tan yards wide aaeb night for 
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several nights in suoosssion* Tbs early stands of thin rice suffered 
aosti tbo predilection of tbo duoics for tbo thin bailed early na taring 
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duo Hero Variety was aspaoially noticeable. In many oaaaa the ducas 
ware attracted by bbondanoa of graas aoeda in foal rioo but oleaned 
oat both tbo grass and rioo* 
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Duoics did not drop into dense full stands of rioo bat worked in 
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to it froa tbs aarglns. Tbs first lino of birds penetrated tbo dense 
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growth of grain staking scattered narrow lanes while those that followed 
wallowed down tho bulb of tho stalks in feeding on tho beads. In food- 
ing in tho fields tho dusks showed o tendency to congregate in largo 
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f looks. Bunches oaao in and oi ruled ewer the fields until osm flook 
found a suitable place and alighted. Tbo others then decoyed in to tbea 
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and birds that oaoe later followed oo that it ana not unusual to find 
6000 Pintails feeding in one spot. The deatruotioa wrought by tfaeoe 
birds nay bo imagined. Tbo ordinary low gabbling undo by one of these 
duoko in feeding woo oagilnf led in thooo f lookings until it fonaed a 
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oontinuoua rubbling roaring sound audible distinctly ot ©tar half a olio 
through which oaoe occasional high pitched quacking calls nads by 111- 
