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Title: The wild-fowler : a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Folkard, Henry Coleman
Subjects: Fowling Waterfowl shooting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London (England) : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ly, as numerous in America as in anyquarter of the globe. Some of tlie States of tliat country are mostfavourably adapted to their reception; thoug-h the modern system ofdraining- is vigorously progressing- in many parts, with the samegigantic strides it has made in England j and thus some of thefavourite haunts of the aquatic species have been considerably en-croached upon. The drowned lands of Orange County, the meadows of Chathamand Pine Brook, the Passaic and its tributaries, before the modernsystem of draining- and embanking, offered the fairest possible retreatsfor wild-fowl. In those parts thousands of acres of luxuriant soilwere annually covered with shallow water; and those inundated flatswere sometimes literally blackened with all the varieties of wild-fowlknown throughout the land.* But it is not in those parts of America only, that wild-fowl are sonumerous. They abound in all the States of the country, wherever * Vkle Herberts Field Sports in the United States : a.d. 1848.
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WILD-FOWLING IN AMERICA, 371 there are lakes or moist feeding grounds to which they can resort forfood and shelter.* In Canada there are myriads of wild-fowl in favourable seasons;more particularly in the neighbourhood of the Champlain Lake, whichis frequented by wonderful numbers of water-fowl of every species.The fowlers there make huts, on and near the water, with branchesof trees; placing- stuffed decoy birds about the spot they wish thewild ones to resort to. When the latter alight, the fowlers shootthem ; and sometimes they shoot at them as they fly, if they approachwithin range: after which the natives get into their canoes andgather them up. Excellent sport may sometimes be had by proceeding on moon-light nights in a small canoe; when, by gliding noiselessly among theislets of the lake, the birds may be suddenly siuprised withineasy range of a shoulder-piece. The fowlers have also a method ofcatching them in nets, which they spread upon the surface of thewater at the entrance

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