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they are wild, nor will any fuch attempt be likely to fucceed, imlefs 

 it be made in the neighbourhood of the fea. The flefh is very rank, 

 but their eggs are much efteemed. 



This fpecies remains with us all the year: in winter it col- 

 lects in large flocks ; leaves the Orknies in that feafon, and returns 

 there again in the fpring. It is alfo found very far to the North : 

 in Afia about the Cafpian Sea*, and the fait lakes of the Tartarian 

 and Siberian Defarts t, Kamfchathi % and the Falkland IJIes ||. 



* Latham. f JDecou. Ruf. x. p, 472. % Pen. ArB. Zed. J! Penrofe, p. 34, 



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