Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 304
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… … NEST OF THE CANVASBACK DUCK. A typical ducks nest—a feather-lined cradle in a tussock of the marsh, surrounded by water. lined, like most of those on the ground, withdowny feathers from the ducks breast. In thissoft bed the eggs lie warm even in the far North-east, where the Fourth-of-July…
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