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of my remark, by that eminent artist, Charles Grey, repre- 

 senting a duck rushing furiously on a magpie, which had 

 transfixed a duckling with its talons. Grey, like Landseer, 

 never paints from imagination ; he never depicts scenes that 

 could not happen, and he is a close observer of nature." 



THE AYLESBURY DUCK. 



The bird here portrayed is a faithful likeness of a duck in 

 my possession, from the stock of Mr. Giles, of Providence. 

 Mr. Giles says of these fowls : " The breed I brought out 

 with me from England are white, with white bills ; their 

 flesh is of a beautiful white, weighing from eight to ten pounds 



