But, from these three colors, you can mix all colors found in the spectrum. Selecting Three Primaries. Probably the best way to choose primary colors is to browse through various art instruction books until you find an artist that sees, and interprets, color in the same way as you do. Deciding on which three primary watercolors to begin with can seem quite daunting, especially if you are new to watercolor.
144 Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases: Birds Figure 16.4 During the 1973 outbreakof duck plague at Lake Andes NationalWildlife Refuge in South Dakota, morethan 40,000 mallards died. Photo by Milton Friend from adjacent Flanders Bay, apparently as a result of diseasetransmission from white Pekin ducks.ittle is known about the response of wild water-fowl to strain differences.Duck plague outbreaks are thought to be caused whenbirds that carry the virus shed it through fecal or oral dis-charge, thus releasing the virus into food and water withwhich susceptible birds may have contact.
Primarily, the Pekin is kept as a table bird, although your ducks will lay, on average, 140 eggs a year. Pekin Ducks were first imported from China by Mr. J. E. Palmer, of Stonington, Conn., in the spring of 1873. They were at first mistaken for small-sized geese.