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Title: Wild Ducks
How to Rear and Shoot Them

Author: W. Coape Oates

Release Date: May 4, 2009 [EBook #28686]

Language: English

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WILD DUCKS

[Illustration: _W.L. Colls. Ph. Sc._

"_The Fleet at Flight time._"]

WILD DUCKS

HOW TO REAR AND SHOOT
THEM

BY

CAPTAIN W. COAPE OATES

WITH 4 PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES FROM DRAWINGS
BY G.E. LODGE, AND 12 ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1905

All rights reserved

TO

MY WIFE

PREFACE

The main object of this book is to assist those who are anxious to rear
wild ducks on economical lines. The Author is not without hope that the
pages which it contains may even be of some use to old hands at the
game.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. SELECTION OF STOCK AND THEIR HOME 13

II. LAYING AND SITTING 25

III. HATCHING AND REARING 41

IV. SHOOTING 61

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES

_From Drawings by_ G.E. LODGE

THE FLEET AT FLIGHT TIME _Frontispiece_

ON GUARD _To face p._ 25

A TIDY MOTHER 33

QUITE TALL ENOUGH 61

FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

COMING IN TO FEED 16

THE CAGE 20

THE REARING PADDOCK 41

A SMALL RUN 46

WARE WIRE! 48

WIRED IN ON THE WATER