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covered with the heavy dew so common in 
South Africa, and the birds are then feeding. 
At such time scent lies well, and the dogs will 
draw up to a covey from a long distance. To¬ 
ward noon, however, scent seemed to fail, and 
birds were not discovered by the dogs until they 
got right on to them, many birds probably be¬ 
ing never found at all. 
DUCK SHOOTING IN THE PHILIPPINES 
The duck season in the Philippines com¬ 
mences when the rains finish, about December. 
When the country becomes easier to get about 
in, the ducks congregate more and are easier to 
find. During the past year I have been living 
in the Province of Pangasinan, which is situ¬ 
ated about the center of the Island of Luzon, 
and, as I have been employed on the location 
and construction of a new railway extension, I 
have seen a good deal of the country and had 
an opportunity to find lots of places for duck. 
I often shoot alone, but in many cases with my 
friend C., who lives about twelve miles away. 
If we are unable to stay the previous night to¬ 
gether, we arrange to meet about halfway be¬ 
tween our respective stations and cover the dis¬ 
tance in a native carromata, an uncomfortable 
conveyance drawn by two small and lean ponies, 
which, however, are wonderfully strong, and get 
over a lot of ground in comparatively short 
time. To take a typical day. Having met, as 
arranged, as early as possible in the morning, 
we take a canoe, dug out from a single tree 
trunk, to cross the river with our men, and 
then walk to where we intend beginning to 
shoot. In this particular district we know of 
two good places, and decide to go straight to 
the further one first before the day gets too 
hot. This means about one hour’s walk over a 
fair trail to some mallard on the water. We ap¬ 
proached the mallard, and on their getting up 
one fell to a long shot, but was not picked up. 
This shot put up quite a number of duck, which, 
not having been shot at before, came well over 
us, and we soon had some six or seven mallard 
and teal down, and mostly gathered. A 
wounded bird is seldom picked up, as they in¬ 
variably dive when one approached them and 
are not seen again. The main lot of duck had 
now settled further up on the lagoon, and, hav¬ 
ing taken up good positions in their probable 
line of flight, we send the men round to put 
them up. Some mallard come over first, flying 
fairly high and fast, and though shot at by both 
of us, they go on apparently unharmed and 
heading for the other place, we intend shooting 
in the afternoon. Then some teal follow, and 
are not so lucky, for a couple are added to the 
bag. It is now n A. M., and the sun is very 
hot, so we decided to rest and have an early 
lunch, and then go down to the lower place. A 
cold drink from a “Thermos” is most refreshing, 
and after lunch and a smoke we feel quite rested 
and reach our other place about 4 P. M. This 
is a narrow creek with high grass on each side 
and steep banks. Here there are mallard only 
and in large numbers, and when put up they 
follow the line of the creek, flying right down, 
then wheeling and flying over again, giving the 
most perfect shooting, though difficult to kill, 
as they fly very fast and high. After a while 
they break up into flocks of about a dozen each 
and keep coming well over for about twenty 
minutes, when they seem to realize that they 
would be safer elsewhere, and then fly off, safe 
till another day. We then collect what has been 
shot, and, although we use no dogs, a well- 
trained Filipino leaves very few dead birds be¬ 
hind in spite of the thick jungle grass, in many 
places from 6 feet to 9 feet high. 
We then make our way back to our carro- 
matas well satisfied with our sport. On a day 
such as this our bag is generally between ten 
and twenty mallard and teal, which make a 
welcome addition to the larder. We have ac¬ 
counted for about 150 mallard and 100 teal from 
December to June, when the season ends, as 
the ducks begin pairing at the approach of the 
rains. The snipe, however, arrive in August, so 
we have not a long close season,—The Field. 
