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white, which forms a line of white on the 
wing; the rest of the quills and tail brown. 
Montagu says that the King Duck 
resides chiefly in the northern parts ; are 
plentiful at Hudson's Bay, where they 
breed on the sides of pools and rivers. The 
nest is made of sticks and moss, lined with 
down plucked from their own body. The 
eggs^ are five or six in number, rather less 
than those of a Goose, of a whitish colour. 
It is not unfrequent in the north of Sibe- 
ria and Kamptschatka, and common in 
Greenland, where the down is accounted 
of equal value to that of the Eider Duck, 
the flesh excellent, and the gibbous part 
of the beak a delicacy. The skins sewed 
together are used for winter garments by 
the natives. 
* * Mr. Bullock, when he was at the Orkney Isles, 
found the nest of this bird on a rock, impending th$ 
sea i it contained six yellowish-white eggs. 
