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tures. I will add that the pasties of Amiens and the 

 celebrated ragouts of Nerac and Toulouse are made 

 of these livers. 



"To bring this subject to a close, a few words on 

 a second kind of duck, less common in our poultry- 

 yards than the first. It is the Barbary duck, called 

 also the musk duck on account of its odor of musk, 

 and likewise known as the silent duck, because it 

 utters no cry. It is much larger than the common 

 duck, its plumage is darker, of a variegated black 

 and green, and the head of the male is adorned with 

 scales and with fleshy growths of a bright red color. ' 9 



