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the nest soon after they are hatched, and 
follow the female, who leads them to the 
water, where, having taking them on her 
back, she swims with them a few yards, 
and then dives, and leaves them floating 
on the water ; in this situation they soon 
learn to take care of themselves, and are 
seldom afterwards seen on the land, but 
live among the rocks, and feed on insects 
and sea- weed." 
We believe that every attempt hitherto 
made, to domesticate the Eiders in this 
country, has completely failed; probably 
for want of being able to supply them 
with a sufficient quantity of proper food. 
Capt. Sabine in a paper published in 
the Linnean Transactions informs us that 
u the trachea of the male is uniform in 
size, rather compressed; the tympanum 
is small and flatly globose ; the bronchias 
are of different sizes, the larger one being 
dilated considerably in the centre." 
none in such great abundance : these however are 
mixed together and carried to market without discri- 
mination." 
