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post-haste thousand-mile flight thither from their breeding 

 grounds in the Kokonor region. 



The Goosander, Smew, Pochard, and one or two others 

 are diving, fish-eating ducks, but if skinned they lose their 

 fishy flavour and become palatable, but even then they are 

 inferior eating in comparison with Mallard, Wax-bill, and the 

 Common Teal. 



