DUCK. 483 



and white : hatches in July. Feeds on grafs. Known by the • 

 name of Cus aifi qua turn. It retires ibuth in winter. At that 

 feafon the Velvet Duck is frequently feen as farfoutb as Tew Tork : 

 our late navigators met with it at Aoonalajhhi *. 



It is now and then feen on the coafts of England, but is not 

 common. More plenty on the ccTiiuent, inhabiting Denmark 

 and Ruffia : in fome parts of Sibiria very common ; and enters 

 the lift of thofe found at Kamtfchatka. In breeding-time goes 

 far inland to lay the eggs, which are eight or ten in number, 

 and white. After the feafon is over, the males are faid *o depart; 

 the females ftaying behind till the young are able to fly, when 

 the two laft go likewife off, but to what part is not certain f . 

 We believe that this is called at Kamtfchatka, Turpan ■, though 

 it is in greater plenty at Ochotfka, efpecially about the equinox: 

 fifty or more of the natives go in boats, and furround the whole 

 flock, driving them, in the flood, up the river Ochotfka ■, and, 

 as foon as it ebbs, the whole company fall on them at once 

 with clubs, and often knock fo many of them on the head, that 

 each man has twenty or thirty for his lhare %* 



* Ellis's Narr. ii. p. 43. f No-v. Com. Petr. iv. p. 4.ZI.— ^n5. ZcoL 



1 Hill. Kamtfcb, p. i6o» 



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