Savage Sudan : its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life (1921)
Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) · London ; Edinburgh : Gurney and Jackson · leaf 304
tree-ducks as a destroyer overhauls a mud-hopper. So unwary were all these ducks that they allowed me to stroll past within easy gunshot — provided always that I kept to leeward. The moment they got the “wind,” they would spring, though 200 yards away. To illustrate this fact : — At one point a… … Darters. “ Flops up heavily.” “ Suspicious ” — (like periscopes). I walked out to the end, in full view ; not a single duck to windward took the slightest notice ; whereas every one under my lee rose in alarm as I advanced. It is one of the anomalies of animal-instinct that keen- scented wildfowl…
Hunting -- Sudan · Natural history -- Sudan · Sudan -- Description and travel
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