Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could learn facts about them which naturalists have been able only to surmise. In the September-October issue of Natural History, published this week, Lord Grey reveals many facts unknown to U. S. sportsmen & naturalists concerning the love-life of a distinguished native of North America, the canvasback duck (Nyroca valisineria...
...Fallodon, near the Scottish border, Lord Grey has established two duck sanctuaries, in & about two small ponds surrounded by high fox-proof fences. There he feeds his ducks twice a day, many of them eating from his hand. All are wild ducks, free to come & go as they please, but at Fallodon they have become tame. There are some 200 ducks of 20-odd species. Says Frank Michler Chapman, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, in an introduction to Lord Grey's article...
...Lord Grey got a pair of canvasbacks, duck & drake, from two breeders who had raised them from U. S. eggs. They were pinioned and tame. For six months the birds showed no attachment for each other, then the duck began sitting on five eggs. Five young ducks were hatched, four lived to maturity. They were very shy, would not feed while any human was near. For five weeks Lord Grey tried to tame them. "Late on summer evenings when I could get the canvasbacks by themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread...
...many wrinkles on his forehead ... he has to screw his hat on his head. . . . On his vest is dangling a golden charm . . . it's a piece of an omelet. . . . He says 'What is that?' And she says 'That is a canvas back duck.' And he says 'Well, take the canvas back and bring me the duck...
...Coarse Duck." French observers roundly declared that what the German President did was to pass from infraction of the Treaty of Versailles to actual violation...