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"Frisch" reproductions. Mr. Gronvold and Mr. Murray Dixon, too, have made 
excellent drawings of the eggs, the young in down, and eclipse plumages. 
After carefully studying all the old and the new lists of British birds and 
their nomenclature, I have adopted those names which seem best to me, a course 
all working ornithologists will probably follow till the end of the chapter. I have 
always thought that there are too many genera amongst the ducks, and I have 
accordingly discarded those that are superfluous. 
J. G. MILLAIS. 
VOL. I. 
