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blotches about the middle, appearing as if 
artificially stained." 
At the time the above author published 
the Supplement to his Ornithological Dic- 
tionary, the specimen just noticed was alive 
and in high health, living in the utmost 
harmony with o her species belonging to 
this genus. " Towards the spring she 
becomes more clamorous, and impatient 
of confinement ; but at all times will ap- 
proach those persons in the habit of feeding 
her, and will take food from the hand, 
at the same time uttering those plaint- 
ive and harmonious notes, for which the 
species have been remarkable, and which 
is always attended with a singular jerk of 
the head. She usually carries her neck 
straight and erect, either upon the water 
or when stationary on land ; but in walk- 
ing the head is lowered and the neck re- 
clining over the back. In the season of 
love she frequently flaps along the surface 
of the water, and would undoubtedly fly, if 
the precaution of annually cutting the fea- 
thers of one wing was omitted, for whatever 
might have been the wound that was the 
