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At Egg Harbor, the Red-headed Ducks are more common than 

 they are with us, but not so plentiful as on the Chesapeake, where 

 the majority assemble during winter. 



Frequent attempts have been made to domesticate these birds, but 

 only in one instance do I know of its having been attended with suc- 

 cess. This was with an individual in the possession of Edmund 

 Powell, Esq., of Westbury, L. I., who has induced it to become 

 completely reconciled to its new home, as though it had never known 

 any other course of life. This gentleman seems to have a peculiar 

 faculty for subduing the wild propensities of birds, of which he has 

 a greater variety domesticated by him than I have seen in any other 

 part of the country. It is not only a great embellishment to 

 his residence, but at times the means of affording convenient shoot- 

 ing, as they always invite straggling parties when crossing the land 

 to stop and share with them; the invitation, given with 'so much 

 earnestness, and being hailed in their own language, they seldom fail 

 to alight on the pond without in the least suspecting the treachery 

 of their kinsmen. The Red-headed Duck arrives with us usually 

 about the first of November — early in March it leaves for the North, 

 where it breeds. 



Spec 



FULIGULA MARILA— LINN. 

 SCAUP DUCK. 



Anas marila, Wils. Aroer. Orn. 



Fuiigula marila, Scaup Duck, Sw. & Rich. 



Scaup Duck, Nutt. Man. 



tcific Character — The head and the neck all round, with the 

 fore part of the breast and the fore part of back black ; the sides 

 of the head and the sides and hind part of the neck dark green, 

 reflecting purple ; length of bill when measured along the gap, two 

 inches and five-sixteenths ; length of tarsi one inch and three- 

 eighths ; length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail 

 nineteen inches, wing eight inches and five-eighths ; a broad white 

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