"Summer duck" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or Summer Duck (Aix sponsa). Bill of male red, paddle-box buff, bill of female and feet ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... roused from its covert in the shady thickets of the pawpaw-trees. The wild turkey, too, in all the glitter of his metallic plumage, crossed my path; and upon the bayou, whose bank I for some time followed, I had ample opportunity of discharging my piece at the blue heron or the egret, the summer duck or the snake-bird, the slender ibis or the stately crane. Even the king of winged creatures, the white-headed eagle, was more than once within range of my gun, screaming his maniac note among the tops of ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid |
