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Definition of Gadwalls
1. gadwall [n] - See also: gadwall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gadwalls
Literary usage of Gadwalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Feathered Game: A Handbook of the North American Game Birds by Dwight Williams Huntington (1903)
"I found it fairly abundant in North Dakota and usually shot a few gadwalls with
the other ducks. One day when shooting on a little pond quite near the ..."
2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"In Ireland, Sir R. Payne-Gallwey considers that gadwalls are far more frequent
in winter than is generally supposed, and he cites a considerable number of ..."
3. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1878)
"Like all the rice producing lands of the State this region abounds in the common
varieties of ducks- mallards, black ducks, widgeons, pin-tails, gadwalls, ..."
4. Propagation of Wild Birds: A Manual of Applied Ornithology, Treating of by Herbert Keightley Job (1915)
"gadwalls did well, and are very nice ducks, easy to raise, ... EA McIlhenny,
however, is very successful in rearing young gadwalls and blue- winged teals. ..."
5. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"... combined with the peculiar habits, and comparatively sombre plumage of the
species, has induced me to separate the gadwalls from the succeeding genera, ..."
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