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Title: Among the water-fowl; observation, adventure, photography. A popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky mountains
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933
Subjects: Water birds Birds
Publisher: London, Wm. Heinemann
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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sock a little beyond me,— a Redhead, Isaw at once. There was a very large basket-nestof dry rushes,lined with down,and a no less size-able assortmentof eggs, fifteenof them I finallycounted. Eachegg, too, waslarge , n earlywhite, with afaint greenishtinge and a shell so smooth and hard as to remindone of a billiard ball. Altogether it was a large andinteresting discovery. At this point I waded ashore and had no soonerset foot on dry land than a Blue-winged Teal flushedfrom the prairie grass, and I found her eight fresheggs in a nest of grass and down similar to thosealready found. From this spot I had gone but ashort distance, when out went another Teal, anddirectly I was inspecting eight eggs more. Hav-ing by this time rested a little, I again tried wad-ing, and very soon had the pleasure of seeing afemale Shoveler unwillingly flutter out from somevery thick grass near me. I had been told thatthis species usually nested on the dry prairie, 183 NEST OF REDHEAD ^j^mmi?i. w - •^^^;-
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184 Wild-Fowl of Wild-Fowl but here was evidently a nest out over the water.For some time I pawed over that grass in vain,and began to think I was mistaken, when a pieceof down cHmging to a blade of grass caught myeye. Under it was the nest, at the very bottomof the high tussock. The grass met over it with-out showing any opening whatever. I should neverhave found it without flushing the bird. Therewere ten fresh eggs, yellowish white, the color ofthe Teals, but larger. Many interesting happenings followed, until intime we reached the Turtle Mountain timberedcountry, which, though interesting, did not affordmuch in the line of Ducks. About all I saw therewere a few Blue-winged Teals, Redheads, Golden-eyes and Mallards. With the latter I had a ratheramusing experience. One day I found myself onthe shore of a lake in an uninhabited region, milesfrom camp at dinner-time, and no food with me.At one oclock I was beginning to feel rather faint,when a Mallard flushed from the grass just up f

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