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realized in America. It is certain that our swan is heard to 

 make a sound resembling that of a trumpet, both when in water 

 and on the wing'. 



WHITE HEAD COOT, Anas spectabilis [Oidemia perspi- 



cillata]. 



BROWN COOT, Anas fusca [Oidemia sp. female? ]. 



BLACK DUCK, Anas nigra [Anas obscura? ]. 



WHITE GOOSE, Anas erythropus [Chen hyperbo- 



rea]. 

 BLUISH GOOSE, Anas caerulescens [Chen caerules- 



cens]. 



BRANT or BRENT, Anas bernicla [Branta bernicla], 



WILD OR BLACK GOOSE, Anas canadensis fBranta canaden- 



sis]. 



This is the bird which Dr. HII.IV calls the Swan goose. It is a 

 bird of passage, and gregarious; the form of the phalanx, when 

 on the wing, is that of a wedge. By the mixture of this with 

 the common goose, a mongrel breed is produced, which is more 

 valuable than either of them singly. The wild goose, though 

 it migrates from one part of the continent to the other, yet has 

 its local attachments. One of them, which was caught in the 

 spring, and kept in a farm yard w 7 ith a flock of domestic geese, 

 when the time of its migration arrived, took the first opportuni- 

 ty to join a flock in their passage to the southward; but at the 

 return of spring, came back and alighted in the same yard with 

 four young ones, which she had produced in her absence. 



The BRANT is rare in New-Hampshire; but in the bay of 

 Massachusetts, is found in great abundance. 



SEA DUCK, Anas mollissirna [Somateria dres- 



seri]. 

 DIPPER, Anas albeola [Charitonetta albeo- 



la]. 

 OiDwnfE, Anas strepera? [Harelda hyema- 



lis]. 

 QUINDAR, Anas bucephala? [Clangula clan- 



gula americana]. 

 WHISTLER, Anas clangula? [Clangula clangula 



americana]. 

 WIDGEON, Anas penelope? [Mareca america- 



na]. 



LORD and LADY, or 1 Anas histrionica? [Histrionicus 



SEA PIGEON, j histrionicus]. 



BLUE WINGED TEAL, Anas discors [Querquedula dis- 



cors]. 



GREEN WINGED TEAL, Anas -- [Nettion carolinensis]. 



GREY WOOD DUCK, Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa]. 



WOOD DUCK, Anas arborea [Aix sponsa]. 



