434 D U C K. 



Place akd This fpecies, for we efteem it difKnct, is an inhabicant of the 



Manners. . ... . 



northern regions ; never appearing in England except in hard 



winters, when flocks of five or fix are now and then feen. Said 

 however to come into Lingey, one of the Weft em IJles, in the 

 month of Oclober, and to flay there till March, when they depart. 

 A few obferved to continue in Mainland, one of the Orknies, and 

 breed there ; but the major part retire to the north during fum- 

 mer, being found in Iceland*, Lapland, the defarts of Tartary 

 and Sibiria, as far as Kamtfchatka. In the fummer fpread to- 

 wards thc/outh, being then found about the Cafpian and Euxine 

 Seas, in Greece f, and at times even fo low as Egypt ; but are 

 obferved, on this fide the Equator, only between the Tropic and 

 Artlic circles, to the laft of which it is faid they fcarce ever 

 arrive :£. We have little doubt of this proving the bird called Colum, 

 which is met with about Surat, in the Eaft Indies ||, where likewife 

 is the mute fpecies ; the former well diftinguiflied from the latter 



* The people of Iceland find that the number increafes towards winter, hence 

 fuppofe them to come from parts frill farther north ; and in fpring more than an 

 hundred are often feen in a flock, which are thought to have come from the 

 fouth. This is faid of the migrators; for the greater part of the young brood 

 flay the whole year, frequenting the lakes in fummer, and in the winter remov- 

 ing to the fea-fhore. — Von Trail. Icel. p. 143. 



t Catejb. Car. App. p. 36.— ffi/?. Louif. ii. p. 78. % ArB. Zed. 



|| Fryer's Tra<v. p. 1 19. 316.— After obferving that the Colum is found at Surat, 

 as well as the Serafs, a fpecies of the former, he fays, " The afpera arteria is 

 " wound up in a cafe on both fides their breaft-bone, in manner of a trum- 

 " pet, fuch as our Waits ufe : when it is fingle it is a Sera/s, when double a 

 " Colum, making a greater noife than a Bittern, being heard a great while be- 

 " fore they can be feen, flying in .armies in the air." — And adds, that thefe 

 fiy towards the cold countries when the Ram enters its fign, P. 316. 



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