The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 47
e wood-duck is the most domestic of all the tribe, and is very apt to nest in some most unex-pected place, close to human habitations. I know of one nest in a knot-hole of a large maple onlysix feet from the ground, right on a well-traveled road near a house.—Herbert K. Job. The most common kinds… … BLACK DUCKS AND YOUNG. I am sure I would not exchange the quiet surprise and pleasure I feel, as, on rounding some point or curve in the stream, two or moreducks spring suddenly out from some little cove or indentation in the shore, and with an alarum Quack, quack, launch into the air andquickly…
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