DUCK. 



large as thofe of the Goofe. The young fly in July. The food 

 chiefly confifts of worms and grafs. Known by the name of Mis 

 fe Jheep *. In winter fometimes is met with as far fouth as New 

 York. Is common in Greenland; and feems very much of the 

 nature of the laft fpecies, producing down equally valuable, and 

 has much the fame manners as that bird. The flefh is accounted 

 excellent, and the crude gibbous part of the bill a great delicacy. 

 The flcins are fewed together, and make warm garments. The 

 natives kill them with darts, and ufe the following method to fuc- 

 ceed : — A number of men in canoes, falling in with a flock while 

 fwimming, on a fudden fet up a fhouting, making as much noife 

 as they can ; on which, the birds being too much frightened to 

 fly away, dive under the water j but, as the place at which they 

 are to rife again is known by the bubbling of the water above, 

 the hunters follow them up as clofe as may be ; and after acting 

 this three or four times over, the birds become fo fatigued as to 

 be eafily killed f. This fpecies is found alfo on the coaft of 

 Norway, and has been killed in the Orknies J. Is pretty fre- 

 quent in the north of Sibiria and Kamtfchatka. 



* Mr. Hutthitu, f Faun. Groenl. t drtt. ZesL 



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