Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 304
timulate our excursions to swamps andswampy woods. One of my cousins, while fishing from a row-boat, once saw a little black duckling among the NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 843 rushes in the river. A chase began at once, butit was only after a long, hard row that the swim-mer was overtaken… … MALLARD (COMMON WILD DUCK) AND THE GREEN-WINGED TEAL, A TOY DUCK.Flock of green-winged teal. incubator. A year or more later, on inquiringabout him, I was sorry to hear that a jealousrooster had killed him. Most ducks build in clumps of rushes or oflong grass near the water. A few build in hol-low…
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