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realized in America. It is certain that our swan is heard to 

 make a sound resembling that of a trumpet, both when in water 

 and on the wing-. 



White Head Coot, 



Brown Coot, 

 Black Duck, 

 White Goose, 



Bluish Goose, 



Brant or Brent, 

 Wild or Black Goose, 



Anas spectabilis [Gidemia perspi- 

 cillata]. 



Anas fusca [Gidemia sp. female? ]. 



Anas nigra [x\nas obscura? ]. 



Anas erythropus [Cken hyperbo- 

 rea]. 



Anas caerulescens [Chen caerules- 

 cens]. 



Anas bernicla [Branta bernicla]. 



Anas canadensis [Branta canaden- 

 sis]. 



This is the bird which Dr. Hill calls the Swaji goose. It is a 

 bird of passage, and gregarious; the form of the phalanx, when 

 on the wing, is that of a wedge. By the mixture of this with 

 the common goose, a mongrel breed is produced, which is more 

 valuable than either of them singly. The wild goose, though 

 it migrates from one part of the continent to the other, 5'et has 

 its local attachments. One of them, which was caught in the 

 spring, and kept in a farm yard with a flock of domestic geese, 

 when the time of its migration arrived, took the first opportuni- 

 ty to join a flock in their passage to the' southward; but at the 

 return of spring, came back and alighted in the same yard with 

 four 3^oung ones, which she had produced in her absence. 



The BRANT is rare in New^- Hampshire; but in the bay of 

 Massachusetts, is found in great abundance. 



Sea Duck, 



Dipper, 



Gldwife, 



Quindar, 



Whistler, 



Widgeon, 



Mallard, or Sprig-) 

 TAILED Duck, J 



Lord and Lady, or \ 

 Sea Pigeon, / 



Blue Winged Teal, 



Green Winged Teal, 

 Grey Wood Duck, 

 Wood Duck, 



Anas mollissima [Somateria dres- 

 seri]. 



Anas albeola [Charitonetta albeo- 

 la]. 



Anas strepera ? [Harelda hyema- 

 lis]. 



Anas bucephala? [Clangula clan- 

 gula americana]. 



Anas clangula? [Clangula clangula 

 americana]. 



Anas penelope? [Mareca america- 

 na]. 



Anas acuta [Dafila acuta?]. 



Anas histrionica? [ Histrionicus 



histrionicus]. 

 Anas discors [Querquedula dis- 



cors]. 



Anas [Nettion caroliuensis]. 



Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa]. 

 Anas arborea [Aix sponsa]. 



