in every latitude of the Russian dominions; 
it is also found in France, Germany, &c. 
Temminck says that the food of this spe- 
cies consists of fish and insects, rarely of 
plants or grain. Those which came un- 
der our inspection, have in general had 
their gizzards filled with small shell-fish 
vulgarly called Pin-patches, or Peri- 
winkles. 
We have given a drawing of the trachea 
belonging to the male of this species. 
