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authors to mislead, we have no hesitation 
in believing that the eggs so described, as 
belonging to the Shoveler, must have 
been those belonging to some other spe- 
cies. The young have been hatched under 
a hen, but they are found very difficult to 
rear. Mr. Youell of Yarmouth has suc- 
ceeded in rearing several. They form an 
elegant addition to his collection of Water 
fowl. 
As the end of all discussion should be 
the advancement of science, and as errors 
are received and appreciated in proportion 
to the celebrity of the authority from 
whence they are derived, we trust that in 
noticing a remark made by that great au- 
thor to whom we are indebted for the revi- 
val of this Science hj means of his justly 
celebrated Work on Natural History, will 
not be attributed to a wish to cavil on our 
part. Buffon on the authority of M. Bail- 
Ion gives the following description of the 
young of this species. They " are hatched 
with a grey spotted down, like the duck- 
lings, and are extremely ugly. Their bill 
is then almost as broad as their body, 
