October, 1913 
Another very harmful method of hunting 
is by “fire lighting.” A light with a re¬ 
flector is mounted on the prow of a small 
boat. The hunters then proceed to row 
out in the sounds or wide bays where 
flocks of geese or diving ducks are sleep¬ 
ing. These excursions are made on still 
nights when the water lies calm and 
smooth. The wild fowl see only the light 
silently approaching, while the men 
shielded by the reflector have an unhin¬ 
dered view of their victims. Silently the 
boat advances to within a few yards of the 
ducks, which, crowded compactly together 
with curious heads raised aloft, present a 
field of slaughter sufficient to satisfy the 
greed of the most exacting pot hunter. 
North or south, wherever the wild fowl 
go, it is the same sad story: persecution 
and disaster confronts them. There are 
some that brave the deserts of the South 
and crowd on down to the fertile valleys 
of Old Mexico. Here destruction in one 
of its most diabolical forms is awaiting 
their coming on the ponds of many a ha¬ 
cienda. At a strategic point on shore a 
platform is built on which are arranged 
from fifty to two hundred guns loaded 
with heavy shot. These are so wired that 
any number of them may be fired at a 
given moment. Sometimes the guns are 
arrayed in two tiers, so that one may sweep 
the water and the other catch the ducks as 
they rise. These shallow ponds are gen¬ 
erally baited with grain, and the wild fowl 
come in great numbers to feed on the 
bounteous repast so treacherously spread 
for them. The butchery as a result of 
these Mexican armadas is sometimes al¬ 
most beyond belief, and the numbers of 
birds thus easily taken may have some¬ 
thing to do with the market price. A few 
years ago I found shovelers, pintails, teal 
and other species of ducks selling in the 
markets of Mexico City for five cents each. 
When one views these scenes of slaugh¬ 
ter and comes to realize how constantly 
throughout the year the toll of life is ex¬ 
acted, the wonder grows that the wild fowl 
group has not before this passed away and 
taken its place in history with the Dodo, 
the Labrador duck and the passenger 
pigeon. 
That ducks are becoming scarcer with 
the passage of each year, no well-informed 
man would attempt to deny. There is one 
species which even now seems doomed un¬ 
less the most heroic efforts are taken for 
its preservation. This is the elegant wood 
duck, the most handsomely colored of all 
of our wild fowl. Formerly it was com¬ 
mon in nearly all wooded sections of east¬ 
ern North "America where streams or 
ponds are found. Audubon gives testi¬ 
mony of its abundance. Writing in 1835, 
he says: “I know a person in South Caro¬ 
lina who caught several hundred in the 
course of a week,” and again, “For my 
part, I assure you, I have seen hundreds 
in a single flock.” But nowhere in this 
country can this bird now be found in such 
numbers. It lays its eggs in the hollows 
of trees, thus acquiring the name by which 
it is known. Sometimes the nesting site 
chosen is over water, but more frequently, 
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