Bii'&sof DeadSiver Region, Me. 5VH.0. 
99. Aix sponsa, (Wood Duck). These Ducks 
were common on Dead river and Spencer stream, 
where they nested in the hollow stubs on the 
; banks. I saw many old nesting sites and young 
broods in June. They were frequently seen sit- 
1 -ting on logs in small flocks of three or four, when 
canoeing on the streams. 
O.&O. XI. Dec. 1888. p. 178 
Raising Wood Ducks.— How an Ego-Collector 
Heat a Salem Farmer.— Collectors of natural his- 
tory objects find the cultivation of shrewdness a help 
in their chosen field. This spring a Salem farmer 
showed a Norwich oologist a wood duck’s nest with a 
fine clutch of eggs in it and assured him he proposed 
at the proper time to take the eggs, hatch them under 
a hen and have a flock of ducks not readily duplicated. 
The egg-collector felt that the scheme of his friend was 
barbarous, and was doubtful of its feasibility, but he 
did not question it, he simply spoke an encouraging 
word to his farmer friend, and then set to work to 
decide how he should capture those eggs for himself. 
Fair exchange he thought was no robbery, so he pur- 
chased half a dozen domestic ducks’ eggs of about the 
same color and size, and going to the wood duck’s nest 
in the hollow tree, substituted them for the coveted 
clutch which he took home and added to his collection. 
The farmer bided his time, and then took the eggs 
from the wood duck’s nest and placed them under a 
hen. The hen hatched the eggs, and the ducklings are 
running about the farm the admiration of the farmer 
i who has built for them a pretty duck-house, and who 
* is waiting for them to take on the beautiful plumage 
for which the wood duck is noted. The wicked oolo- 
gist is smiling in the meantime over his own shrewd- 
ness and his friend’s child-like faith in eggs of which ' 
he knows nothing. 
1889 pill -/ It 
950. Domesticating Wildfowl. By Fred Mather. Ibid., Nov. 6 and 
Dec. 4, pp. 286, 366. — Wood Duck, Teal,’ Widgeon, Pintail, etc - . & - ; XXIII 
i 383- The Wood Duck in Winter. By Fred Mather, {bid.. No. 24 
Dec. 25, p. 463. . . . : S ‘saaa, Voi,3qnx 
1386. Wood Duck in Winter. By Robert T. Morris. Ibid., No. 2c 
Jan. 12, p. 485.— On Hackensack marshes. Sfe, .; Stream »’ Voi, XXIX 
563. The. Wood Duck— {Aix sponsa). By Byrne. Ibid., XX, No. 1, 
July 7, 1883, P- 9-— Original and interesting account of its habits. 
Americas Field# 
1719- The Foot of the Wood Duck. By Fred. Mather. Ibid., Oct. 4, 
p. 205. — Climbing powers of the young. For, & stream. Vol, 81. 
!33 3 - Domesticating Wood Ducks. Bv M. M. Benschoter, M. D 
Ibid., No. 17, May %9 , p. 367. For, & Stream, Vol. XXVISI 
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