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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
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ept near home; but at last thelove for the wilderness was too strongfor them. One day in the followingautumn, a pair flew into the yard, lin-gered a few minutes and then away;and that was the last I saw of them. These ducks were so common in theCedar River valley at one time that Ihave counted fifty of them sitting on afence at the edge of a wheat field.Here in the Willamette Valley, Ore-gon, they are not very common, butI have seen the young and know thatthey breed here. The Forest andStream calls them a vanishing, gamebird, but as they have so successful-ly been domesticated, they will notdisappear entirely. In 1905 I visited my old collecting-ground in the Cedar River valley,Iowa. The tree from which I hadtaken the thirty-six duck eggs was stillstanding, but not a duck to be seen.There was once the most beautifulforest I have ever seen. I have foundover one hundred species of birdsbreeding on one section of land, butforests and birds are gone forever.George D. Peck. THE OOLOGIST 37
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38 THE OOLOGIST An April Blow on Lake Erie. In late April, 1902, I spent a fewclays on the Peninsula near Erie,Pennsylvania. I had a friend who waslocated in a house-boat along theshore of the Peninsula in MiseryBay. While there I made his place head-quarters, so as to be right on the spotall the time. The Peninsula is Governmentproperty, is kept in a wild and natur-al state and is a great place for birds,especially waterbirds, which some-times come in in considerable num-bers and variety during severe storms.At such times large bags of ducks orshore-birds are often made. I just got there nicely when a blowset in which was just what I wanted.The blow began with a stiff south-eastwind at night and at daylight I was inthe blind on the Point where myfriend had about sixty decoys out. Lotsof gulls and ducks were already seek-ing shelter in the Bay. The ducksseemed to be all Red-breasted Mer-gansers, so after sitting in the blindfor an hour and shooting several nicedrakes I had breakfast a

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