March 2, 1912 
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WILDFOWL IN A PARK. 
Thousands of wild ducks—mallards, teal, 
sprigtails, widgeons and other varieties—have 
sought refuge from the hunter in Stow Lake in 
Golden Gate Park, says the San Francisco 
Chronicle. There, with the great white swans, 
the black swans, the wild geese and the myriads 
of mudhens, they have found a home. 
The east end of Stow lake was fairly covered 
with fowl recently. There, about an artificial 
island, the ducks have congregated and seem to 
know that they are safe from the hunters. The 
chugging of automobiles on the big drive about 
the lake does not disturb the wild fowl and 
hundreds have become almost as tame as do¬ 
mestic fowl already. 
The other morning several men and women 
with baskets of bread made the trip to the lake 
to feed the ducks. There was a wild fluttering 
of the game birds whenever any one appeared at 
the lake to scatter the bread crumbs upon the 
water. 
Before noon the ducks were so tame that they 
flocked about those who fed them. 
The mudhens, tamer than the ducks, climbed 
out of the water and fluttered about the feet of 
the feeders. The big swans lumberingly climbed 
from the water and ate from the hands of those 
who fed them, while wild geese that have made 
their home on the lake for months walked about 
the swans and were fed out of hand. 
At first the big wild ducks were shy, but 
after watching the wild geese, swans and mud¬ 
hens receiving food from men and women with¬ 
out being molested, the ducks swam closer and 
closer until they were finally fighting for the 
bread crumbs thrown to them. 
Ducks and other wild fowl have taken pos¬ 
session of several of the small lakes in the park, 
but it is in Stow Lake that the main body of 
the ducks has taken refuge. 
The east end of the lake is roped off and the 
boating parties are barred from that section, so 
that the ducks may not be frightened. While 
they pay no attention to pedestrians walking 
along the paths about the lake or to the auto¬ 
mobiles. the approach of a rowboat frightens 
the wildfowl away. 
THE STRENGTH OF AN ELEPHANT. 
I HAD lately to go to the Chiromo Marsh in 
Nyasaland in search of certain specimens of 
game which I required, says D. D. Lyell in the 
Field. The marsh has lately been opened to 
sportsmen, having previously been a game re¬ 
serve, originally intended as a sanctuary for ele¬ 
phants. During the months of September, Oc¬ 
tober, and November the heat there is very 
great, the country being low and damp. In the 
lowest parts the vegetation consists of heavy 
reeds rather than grass, and, whether burnt or 
unburnt, it is a hard country to hunt in under 
a tropical sun. In pursuit of my object I came 
across recent spoor of a herd of elephants, and 
during the following week was constantly com¬ 
ing on their fresh tracks. Having killed several 
buffalo, waterbuck, sable, and some other game, 
on Sept. 27, I came to a place where an ele¬ 
phant had scraped up the earth alongside the 
surface root of a large tree. He had then ap¬ 
parently levered up and broken the root with 
his tusk, doubtless gripping it with his trunk at 
the same time. A large piece of this root he 
carried away, and, after chewing at it, he 
dropped it alongside his spoor. He evidently 
was a large, strong beast, for I came on a nkuyu 
tree of large size which he had broken. At the 
place this tree was broken it measured, with a 
steel tape, 525/2 inches in circumference. This 
shows what a full-sized bull elephant is capable 
of doing. 
AN INTERFERENCE. 
‘‘How many ducks did you shoot, Pat?” 
The^ devil a wan! The lake wor full av them. 
But iv’ry time I’d point me gun at wan, d’ye 
rnoind,^ another wan w’d get betwixt me an’ 
him an’ spoil me aim!”—Boston Record. 
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