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FRANK FORESTER S FIELD SPORTS. 



Duck Creek, in the State of Delaware." — Wilson^s American 

 Ormtlwlogy. 



The three birds of the genus Mero-w.?, namely the Goosander, 

 vuJgo, Shelldrake — Mergus Merganser ; the Red-Breasted 

 Merganser — Mergus Serrator ; ^xidi\h.ei Hooded Merganser — 

 Mergus CucuUatus — though all well known sea fowl, all hand- 

 some birds, and all occasionally shot, are utterly unworthy to 

 be called game, and unfit for the food of man. Merely to be 

 named, is, for these, almost too much honor. 



And here ends the list and descriptions of the Shore Birds and 

 Sea Fowl of the United States. A notice is to ensue of ithe va- 

 rious modes by which they are captured, and then we pass on 

 to a nobler division of our subject, the hunting proper, and 

 wilder sports and animals of the Western States, and the 

 great occidental wilderness. 



