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DUCK. 
* It usually appears in England and the south of Scotland in April, 
and again in September. On the Grampians, however, there is reason 
to believe that it breeds. In the Statistical Account of the Parish of 
Carmylie, (vol. I., p. 437,) it is said, ‘‘ the Dottrels, birds of passage, 
alight on the rising grounds about the beginning of April, continue 
here about three weeks, remove to the Grampian hills, about twelve 
miles to the northward, and revisit this parish about the beginning of 
August. After abiding here about three weeks, they fly off to the 
southward, and are not seen till the first of April following.” Colonel 
Thornton informed Montagu that he saw Dottrels in pairs on the 
Grampians, but not young birds.* 
From all accounts, it is quite an alpine bird in the breeding season, 
and probably breeds with, and may be confounded with, the golden 
plover, in the highland swamps. It is very rare so far west as Devon- 
shire ; at least, one only has come under our notice in many years ; 
but probably it is occasionally found upon the higher mountains of Dart- 
moor, where the golden plover is said to breed. We suspect that this 
last bird is often mistaken, in its summer plumage, for the Dottrel, 
the eggs of, which may have been taken on the Mendip hills. 
DOUCKER. — A name for the Divers and Grebes. 
DOVE {Columba, Auctores.) — *A genus of birds which seek their 
food by scratching in the ground (^Rasores, Illiger) ; we have four 
species native — the Ring, the Rock, the Stock, and Turtle Dove.* 
DOVE-COLOURED FALCON. — A name for the Peregrine 
Falcon. 
DRINK OF BIRDS. — *It is well known that carnivorous quad- 
rupeds cannot exist without drink, and that they take liquid by means 
of their tongue ; rapacious birds seldom or ever drink ; eagles, hawks, 
and owls, we have kept for years without their ever tasting water. 
Even in birds which drink, there is no urinary bladder as in other 
animals, but the urine is received into the straight gut, (^rectum^ hence 
called Cloaca * 
DUCK (A nas, Linn^us.) — A genus of birds. 
DUCK (Anas Boschas, Linn^us.) 
Anas Boschas, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 205. 40 Gmel. 2. p. 538 — Ind. Orn. 2. p. 850. 
49 Temm. 2. p. 835 Anas fera, Briss. 6. p. 318. 4 Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 447 — 
Canard Sauvage, Buff. 9. p. 115. t. 7. 8 Wild Duck, Br. Zool. 2. No. 279. 
t. 97 Ib. f. 175 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 494 Will. (Angl.) p. 308. t. 72. 75 
Albin, 2. t. 10 Ib. 1. t. 99. — Lath. Syst, 6. p. 489. 43s- — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 
21 Wale. Syn. 1. t. 77 Don. Br. Birds, 5. t. 124. — Lev'ins Br. Birds, 7. 
t. 246 Flein. Br. Anim. p. 123 Common Wild Duck, Mont. Diet. 1. 
The male bird. Mallard or Drake as it is called, weighs about two 
pounds and a half ; length near twenty -three inches. The bill is of a 
