... “Like a little tin duck floating on a dish of water, that comes after a piece of bread stuck on a needle, and the more the needle pricks it the more it comes on... 
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...The civilisation has not got on to any considerable extent, but thelabour problem has; for, being a malignant nuisance, it has taken toWest Africa as a duck to water, and it is now flourishing...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...We have gone throughBaffin's Bay with a rush and raised Duck Island about ten andpassed and dropped it by two ...
Matthew A. Henson 「A Negro Explorer at the North Pole」
...His cookingof wild duck still brings water tothe mouths of those who have beenasked to the feast...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...Passenger pigeon, Eskimo curlew, great auk, Labrador duck, uplandplover, heath hen, wild turkey; puma, gray wolf, Canada lynx, blackbear, elk...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Wood duck, long-billed curlew, whooping crane; bison...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, passenger pigeon...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Pileated woodpeckers, bald eagles and all the ducks are much morerare than formerly...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Wood duck, abundant 6 years ago, now almost gone...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Wood-duck, ruddy duck, black mallard, grebe or hell-diver, tern andwoodcock...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...It can be done just as wewiped out one-half the annual duck slaughter in wickedly-wastefulNorth Carolina!...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...And then came Nature's punishment upon Utah for that duck slaughter...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...—A great many persons have madepersistent attempts to breed the canvasback, redhead, mallard, blackduck, pintail, teal and other species, on a commercial basis...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...So faras I am aware the mallard is the only wild duck that has been bredin sufficient numbers to slaughter for the markets...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...This strikingly marked Duck is twenty inchesin length, has a green head and speculum, bluewing coverts and chestnut belly...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Wood Duck...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Bridal Duck is a name often given to this, themost beautiful of all Ducks...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Masked Duck...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...The nestinghabits and eggs are the same as those of the Black-bellied Duck, the white eggsbeing laid at the bottom of a cavity in a tree...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
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