UPLAND SHOOTING. 
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The Shoveller, Anas Clypeata , is rare in the United 
States ; though they are found in Louisiana, Florida, and the 
Carolinas, in winter ; but are abundant on the streams of the 
Rocky Mountains and in Texas. 
The Gadwall, Anas Strepera , is also found, though rarely, 
along the maritime districts of the States. In the interior, espe¬ 
cially on the tributaries of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi, 
it is said to abound. It is of solitary habits, rarely congregating 
in large bodies, and is therefore not generally known in the 
United States. 
Of the Sea Ducks, the Golden-Eye, Fuligula Clangula , 
and the Buffel-Head, Fuligula Albeola , better known as the 
u Whistler,” and the u Butter-Ball,” are at times found on the 
fresh waters of the interior, but not in sufficient numbers to ren¬ 
der it necessary to do more than name them, as it would be a 
most liberal courtesy which should extend to them the style of 
Upland game, which may be held to be completed with the 
Duck last described. 
The list thus concluded, the nomenclature established on 
fixed grounds, and the general habits and territorial limits of 
every kind of Upland game being thus laid before the reader, 
I shall proceed to treat, each in its several place and season, of 
the Upland shooting of the Eastern and Middle United States, 
and the Provinces, in all its various kinds and phases ; touching 
upon each according to the date-of its commencement in the 
natural year.* 
* Since writing the above page, I ascertained, during two journeys 
through Canada, one along the northern shore of Lake Huron so far as to 
the Sault St. Marie,first, that “ Widgeon” are exceedingly abundant on 
the rivers and rice lakes of that region. 
And secondly, that on Lake Champlain and on the St. Lawrence, about 
Prescott, the Golden Eye is the most numerous Duck, and that which 
affords most sport on those waters. 
For the description of an excellent Duck, which I found very abundant 
on the upper lakes, and which I believe to be a nondescript, though the 
point is not quite decided, see Vol. II, Appendix F. 
