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ANAS GLOCITANS. 
BIMACULATED DUCK. 
Subcrested, brown waved with black ; 
head green ; before and behind the eyes a 
ferruginous spot ; breast with black spots ; 
wing-spot green edged with white. 
Anas Glocitans, Gme. Lath. 
Bimaculated Duck, Pen. Lath. Bew, 
Mont 
provincial. 
CLUCKING DUCK. 
So little is known of this species that 
the female is not even described by Orni- 
tholigists. At least it has not come within 
the compass of our reading. 
This bird is said (by Pennant and other 
authors) to measure twenty inches in 
length ; and to have been taken in a de- 
coy in England. It has been met with 
along the Lena, and about the lake Bai- 
kal. It has a singular note somewhat 
like clucking ; and is thus described " Bill 
