Identifier: americangameinit00herb (find matches)
Title: American game in its seasons
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, G.E. Woodward (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ccountof their beauty, and few have been introduced except toour menageries; with a little trouble at first, they mightform a much more common ornament about our artificialpieces of water. It is the only form of a Tree Duckcommon to this continent; in other countries there are,however, two or three others of very great importancein the natural system, whose structure and habits haveyet been almost entirely overlooked or lost sight of.These seem to range principally over India, and moresparingly in Africa ; and the Summer Duck is the soli-tary instance, the United States the nearly extremelimit, of its own peculiarities in this divisio)?. of theworld. With this note I close this paper, expressing only thehope that the bird will become more largely domestica-ted ; as no more beautiful adornment can be conceivedto the parks and shrubberies of gentlemen, such moreespecially as possess the advantages of small inlandrivulets, or pieces of ornamental water, whether naturalor artificial. :i!l
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THE AMERICAN DEEE. Cervus Yirginianus. This beautiful and noble animal, formerly so abundantin every part of tbe United States, from the Great Lakesto tlie ocean, and from the eastern boundaries of Maineto the southern limit of their vast empire, is peculiar tothe continent of America, and differs entirely from eachof the three European species, with two of which it hasbeen at times confounded, and even more markedlyfrom all the African and Asiatic varieties. The deer of Europe, and of Great Britain in particular,fiom which country we have derived most of our sport-ing propensities and traditions, and I might add all oursporting nomenclature, consist of three very distinctspecies. These are, first, the Red Deer, which is nowfound only in the Highlands of Scotland, with theexception of a few in Somerset and Devon, and theextreme western wilds of Ireland. The male of these isknown as the Stag or Hart, and the female as the Hind.This is a magnificent and imposing creature, handsomer 222

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