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Title: Feathered game of the Northeast
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Rich, Walter Herbert, 1866-
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York : T.Y. Crowell
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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inter months, the breed-ing and summer seasons being spent in thefar north. Their nests are made upon the ground andon the shore of some fresh water pond near thesea. These contain from four to seven grayisheggs. As soon as the youngsters are fairly wellgrown and able to take care of themselves theyare taken out into the wide world of the ocean.For their food the sea furnishes an unfailingsupply of marine animals and mollusks, which,however, makes their flesh very dark and tomost palates very unpleasant. They are veryfond of the sand fleas and marine creaturesof the seaweed and beaches. They leave our coasts for the breedinggrounds, on the shores of the Arctic seas andamong its islands, during the latter half ofApril or the first of May, to return again,southward bound, in October or November, ac-cording to the season, remaining in our watersall winter. Because their flight is very swift and theydecoy well great numbers of Squaws are killedeach year by the gunners who shoot them mere-
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C/) < Oen Q o THE OLD SQUAW 361 ly for the practice and sport which they af-ford, oftentimes leaving dead and woundedbirds to float at the mercy of wind and tide.It is at the hands of such butchers as these thatthe myriads of seafowl that once lined ourcoasts have been reduced to the hundredth partof their former numbers, for no species, how-ever numerous, could stand the drain upon theirforces resulting from such shooting, and tomake the matter worse, most are killed in thespring flight to the north. I have seen twentyboats at a time, each containing from two tofour shooters, all killing and wounding Squaws,and the half of them never troubling to pick upa bird. Most of the Squaw killing is done over de-coys; a string of tolers anchored to wind-ward of a boat and the gunner only using thecaution to keep below the gunwale until theflock is hovering over the decoys. Another waymuch in favor is to put a line of boats across asound or channel through which the birds areaccustomed to pa

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