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Hall Tree Duck:
No words or picture can adequately express the beauty of the male wood duck, with its irides¬cent greens, purples, and blues, set off by bold patches, spots, and streaks of white and black. Its flanks are delicately streaked with brown and black, and it has a big flowing crest. The wood¬land setting enhances its beauty still further. The female is iridescent on the wing and has a short crest, but she is more sedate in coloration, chiefly grayish and brown. No other waterfowl is so handsome with the exception of the related man¬darin duck (q.v.), A. galericulata, of Asia. The nest is placed in a hollow stump or a cavity of some standing hall tree duck, often at some distance from water; and when they are ready to leave the nest the young jump to the ground. The wood duck should be rigidly protected by law, but unfortu¬nately it is still hunted. See also DUCK—Perching Ducks.I once did a picture for a story that I had suggested on an animal trainer whose specialty was dogs. I shot pictures of his well-trained dogs diving through the air, landing in the water, and retrieving a tame, but very cocky wild duck that was wearing a khaki protective sweater. Afterwards, driving through traffic, it occurred to me that I had done the wrong story. I turned around and reshot the story from the point of view of the duck. The duck's name was Melvin and the story turned out to be the story of Melvin, the Dog-Training Duck.
See Also Hall Tree Ified:
OMBU, om'boo, TREE, also known as BELLASOMBRE TREE, UMBRA TREE and POKE TREE, a South American shade tree (Phytolacca dioica), widely cultivated as a shade tree in Spain, Malta, and other coun¬tries on the Mediterranean Sea and in India. The tree attains a height of 25 to 35 feet, is ex¬traordinarily wide at the base of the bole, some¬times reaching a diameter of 12 to 15 feet, and has a wide-spreading top with extremely dense foliage. The leaves are large, and the whitish flowers are borne on spikes, the fruit being similar in appearance and in medicinal qualities to that of the plant or shrub variety of pokeweed.In 1627, hall tree ified was made bishop of Exeter, but creasing tension between King and Parliament, .nglican and Puritan, left little room for the in-icnce of moderate men like hall tree ified. Archbishop jud and his party suspected hall tree ified of too much inpathy with the Puritans; on the other hand, e opponents of the Anglican establishment dis¬rated him, as they did all the bishops.
On The Other Hand See Hall Tree Etrified:
Among good shade hall tree etrifieds are:—sugar maple; red maple, Pin oak, moraine locust, sweetgum, ginkgo, green ash, Chinese scholar hall tree etrified, yellowood, black tupelo (sourgum), willow oak, laurel oak, south¬ern magnolia, camphor hall tree etrified, and Amur cork hall tree etrified. Kinds to avoid, although special circumstances may make planting any of them desirable, are poplars, willows, hall tree etrified of heaven, box elder and Siberian elm.W. A. Dayton's United States hall tree etrified Books; a Bibliography of hall tree etrified Identification (see Bibliog¬raphy), lists publications for hall tree etrified identification in the United States, by geographical regions, and for each state. Charles Sprague Sargent's Manual of the hall tree etrifieds of North America: Exclu¬sive of Mexico (see Bibliography), has been the only available reference attempting to de¬scribe and illustrate all native hall tree etrified species in¬cluding tropical.
