Identifier: naturalhistoryof01phi (find matches)
Title: A natural history of the ducks
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938 Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951, ill Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946, ill Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927, ill Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Company Cambridge : The Riverside Press
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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hasgiven as good an account as more recent writers. He says it is the shyest of all thebirds of Paraguay. Noseda informed him that there were many more females thanmales, and that the latter sex was seen in considerable flocks, associated with otherducks along fields and overflowed districts. The males went about alone or in verysmall bands, and the natives insisted that the sexes represented entirely distinctspecies. He found it difficult to convince them that such was not the case. Wied(1832), speaking of Brazil, says that they resort to large swamps, surrounded byreeds and grasses, and, in contradiction to the first writer, found them not particu-larly shy. Goeldi (1894-1900) agrees with Azara that this species is exceedinglyshy, and he found them always one of the first to take wing. Kerr (1901) speaks ofthem as extremely shy in the Gran Chaco district of Paraguay, and living singly orin pairs. I am unable to say whether this species is really as rare as the paucity of our knowl-
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