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this account, there are two White Widgeons, as the fiill- 
plumed males are sometimes called by the natives, on 
a piece of fresh water not very distant from ns, but too 
wary to be shot. The females and young birds are called, 
in the northern parts of Devonshire, Vare Widgeon, from a 
supposed similitude to the head of a Weasel, which is there 
denominated a Yare.' 
According to Temminck, this bird nestles on the borders 
of lakes and rivers, and lays from eight to twelve whitish 
eggs. 
Bishop Mant's lines on Goosanders may fitly conclude 
this account of the family : — 
Now too with sharp and sawlike bill 
Cylindrical, the season chill 
From their far dwellings in the north 
Calls duly the Goosanders forth : 
Apt on the salt deep's ooze to ride, 
And swiftly o'er its surfiice glide ; 
More apt the yielding wave to rive, 
Deep through the liquid chambers dive, 
Then with long pause, and far away 
Again the emerging tuft display: 
Him with the feather's pendent crest, 
Neck purpled green, and Buddy Breast \ 
With breast of white, the Diver Dun ; 
And fancy-liken' d to the nun 
Of Carmel, though a jot-black hue 
Inlay his white, the white-robed Smew, 
