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Title: The Game breeder
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Huntington, Dwight Williams, 1851- ed
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: (New York) The Game Conservation Society
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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country and is probably better acquainted • .with the conditions and plants furnishing food for ■ game birds, than any other man in America.—Editor.) .,.;;;,-<:/■..■■ X ■■ WILD DUCKS. The wild ducks of various degrees ofwildness and of various breeds and crossbreeds have become very abundant andthousands would have been sent to theNew York market last fall had it not beenfor fooHsh restrictions. There is a de-cided tendency on the part of wild duckbreeders to improve the character oftheir flocks by introducing wild blood.There is much to be done in this direc-tion before the wild fowl owned bybreeders are uniformly strong on thewing and suitable for the preserve. Crosses between the pheasants andeven long periods of domestication donot seem to cause the loss of wing powerwhich soon occurs when ducks are bredin captivity or partly domesticated. Onmost of the English preserves it is un-usual to find many pure-bred pheasants (Continued on page 50.) 48 THE GAME BREEDER
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