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Sippe Bernicla Cuv. 1817. 
Anser leucopsis Bechst. 
Tractatus de volucri arborea absque patre et matre in insulis Or- 
cadum forma anserculorum proveniente. Auctore Michaele Meiero ar- 
chiatro, comite imperiali; Francofurt 1629. 
Sippe Melanitta B. 1822. 
Anas fusca Lin. 
In wantoness of spirit, plunging down and oft 
With a far-dashing stroke, 
The long suspended breath, 
The foam which broke aroun 
My track like a sea-bird. Byron. 
Sippe Cygnus Bechst. 
Jamjam residunt eruribus asperae 
Pelles et album mutor in alitem, 
Superne nascunturque laeves 
Per digitos humerosque Plumae, Horat. 
Anas Cygnus Lin. 
Dant sonitum rauci 
Per stagna loquacia eygny. Virgil. 
Fam. COLUMBIDAE Vig. 
Sippe Colymbus Lin. 1767. 
Furit Aesacus, atque profundum 
Pronus abit letique viam sine fine retentat ; 
Fecit amor maciem: longa internodia crurum 
Longa manet cervix, caput est a corpore longe. 
'Aequör amat: nomenque manet, quia mergitor illi. Ovid. 
| Sippe Podiceps Lath. 1790 
Wo einstens grüne Gefilde, 
reibt nun der Taucher sein Werk und der fischende 
uf weilsumpfiger Flur und der einsame Nachen des 
Reiger, 
Anglers. Voss, 
o1 Fam. PELECANIDAE Leach. 
| Sippe Carbo Meyer, 1810. 
| Turpe habitu, indole ignavum. et stolidum; vitae genere, voracilate 
continua diarrhoea. foedum. el nauseum. Phalacrocoracis genus cuilibet 
arpyas in memoriam revocare facile possunt. 
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