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terlftlc colours defined with more dlftln6tners than in the female : 

 there is otherwife a general refeniblance as confpicuous at leaft as 

 ufually prevails between the two fexes of the Duck tribe ; and in 

 point of fize^ the female is very little inferior to the male bird. 



As the two fexes aifociate and are found in the fame places, their 

 habits and manners may be prefunied the fame : they are not fup- 

 pofed to breed in Britain, but to vifit us in autumn, and retire again 

 in the fpring : they ufually appear in flocks of thirty or forty together, 

 and are obferved to fly with greater velocity ; but not like feme of 

 the Wild Fowl tribe, in a regularly marflialled manner, under the di- 

 ve6lion of a leader ; they fly rather indifcrimioately. During part of 

 the year they inhabit ISorth America, 



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