EASTERN MUSK DUCK. 
There can be no further question as to their flying both strongly and swiftly, 
but they apparently do not commonly indulge in this practice during the 
day but are not averse to flight in the evening. 
A single addition to Campbell’s many records may be cited. 
Mr. C. G. Hamilton in the Emu, Vol. I., p. 147, 1902, writes : “ We had 
a shooting trip lately, and I was with a friend when he shot a Musk-Duck 
in mistake for a Black Duck. The bird was flying high over us, and was 
going very fast. It must have come from another swamp, which is about 
a mile distant. This occurred just at duslc.’’^ 
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