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tied up, in order to win his wager of shooting one 

 blow off the string, and set the game at liberty. I must, 

 therefore, to be on the safer side, recommend my young 

 pupils to use either a Newfoundland dog, a mute water 

 spaniel, or an old pointer that will keep close, and fetch 

 dead birds. 



EIDER, ST. CUTHBERT'S,, or GREAT BLACK AND WHITE DUCK. 

 Anas mollissima L' eider. 



* FERRUGINOUS DUCK. Anas ruiilaNo French to be found 



for this. 



* GOLDEN-EYE DUCK. Anas clangulaLe garrot. 



* GRAY DUCK, or GAD WALL. Anas strepera Le chipeau. 



LONGTAILED DUCK, or SWALLOWTAILED SHELDRAKE. Anas 

 glacialis Canard de miclon. 



* MORILLON. Anas glaucion Le morillon. 



Leadbeater, whose authority I consider as emanating 

 from the fountain-head, says, that we have been all in 

 the dark about the morillon. He positively affirms, 

 that the bird so called by Buffon and other great men 

 is merely the female or young male of the Golden-eye, 

 and that, as most of the males never come to their full 

 size or plumage till just before the breeding season, it 

 is no wonder our ornithologists should be thus deceived 

 about a bird that only migrates to us for the winter. 



* PINTAILED DUCK, WINTER DUCK, SEA PHEASANT, or CRACKKR. 



Anas acuta Le canard a longue queue. 



* SCAUP DUCK. Anas marila For this we have not the name 



by Buffon, though I am pretty sure I have seen scaup ducks on 

 the coast of Normandy, where, with the dunbirds, they are col- 

 lectively called les vignons. 



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