Manners. 



51® DUCK. 



the windpipe, where it paries into the lungs, an enlargement, 

 or, as it is called by fome, a labyrinth. 

 Place and This bird is now and then met with in England, though not 



in great numbers. Willnghby mentions one found at Crowland, 

 in Lincoinjhire ; and we have had the male fent out of the London 

 markets. I cannot learn that it breeds in England, but it is faid 

 to come into France * in February, and fome of them to ftay 

 during the fummer j\ It lays ten or twelve rufous coloured 

 eggs, placed on a bed of rujhes, in the fame places as the 

 Summer Teal; and departs in September, at leaft the major 

 part of them, for it is rare that one is feen in the winter. 

 The chief food is in/eels, for which it is continually mud- 

 dling in the water with its bill. It alfo is faid dexteroufiy 

 to catch flies, which pafs in its way over the water. Shrimps, 

 among other things, have been found in its ftomach on dif- 

 fection. 



This fpecies is alfo found in mod parts of Germany ; through- 

 out the Ruffian dominions, as far as Kamtfchatka ; and in North 

 America, in New York and Carolina, during the winter feafon. 

 With us it is accounted pretty good food. A bird fimilar to 

 this, if not the fame, is obferved to come to Hudfon's Bay in 

 the fpring; and makes a whittling noife. It is there known by 

 the name of Mimenewick. 



* Hijl (tes Oif. f Salem. Orn. p. 421. 



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