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female Wigeons kept in the same pond. 
This has occurred more than once in the 
menagerie belonging to Lord Stanley; 
and it is remarkable that this Pintail was 
so tenacious of her nest in the advanced 
state of incubation, as to suffer herself to be 
lifted from her eggs, and effected the pro- 
cess of hatching them. The hybrids pro- 
duced from these illicit intercourses were 
much plainer than the male Pintail, but 
more like the female, with a little of the 
head of the male Wigeon. 
Attempts were made in order to ascertain 
whether these birds were capable of raising 
a future progeny, but although frequent 
intercourses were observed to take place 
between the sexes and many eggs produced, 
yet they were not prolific. 
In the same menagerie Montagu assures 
us that a male Wigeon paired with a dun- 
coloured variety of the Common Duck, the 
eggs of which were prolific. 
Gmelin says that this species inhabits 
Europe, Asia, and Africa. Buffon that it 
is also found in America. Its flesh is reck- 
oned very good. 
