It is now two in the morning, and for some time the terrapin has been warring with the canvasback duck, whose eagle-like beak tears at my Promethean liver.

December brought American eels, canvasback duck, buzzard hawks, black ducks, harlequin ducks, Iceland gull and many other species.

There is a record of a single Chesapeake Bay market gunner having killed 7,000 canvasback ducks in a single season in the mid-1840's.

That takes in caviare, smoked canvasback duck, salmon, finest aged fillet steak.

Seward gave a sidelong glance over the canvasback duck.

Hay himself drank only one glass of wine during the dinner, whose two principal features were a thick terrapin soup and canvasback duck, which Herndon had never tasted before.

The region accounts for more than 60% of the breeding populations of mallard, gadwall, blue-winged teal, northern shoveler, northern pintail, redhead, and canvasback ducks.

The wildlife found here include the canvasback duck, tundra swan, white-tailed deer, and muskrat.

Unlike the lobster or the canvasback duck, its value was not a function of scarcity.

The number of canvasback duck was up 39 percent for the year, to 2,500 birds, according to the survey.