NATURAL HISTORY. 
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except fprinkling a little barley, or refiifc 
corn near them, which will prevent their 
ftraying. 
OF the duck fpecies, there are alfo the 
eider, wild, velvet, tufted, pin-tail, grey- 
headed, while-bellied. Barbary, Madagafcar, 
and Bahama ducks. 
Wild ducks are taken in decoys, and in fucli 
vaft quantities, that upwards of ^.30,000 
worth of wild ducks, wigeon, and teal, have 
been fent up to London in one feafon, from 
tlie decoys in the neighbourhood of Wainfleet 
only. 
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