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RUDDY DUCK. 
yards of it. Its flesh I do not consider superior to that of the Buf- 
fel-head, which, with us, is a Duck not highly esteemed. 
I should not be surprised if Bufibn’s Sarcelle a queue epineuse 
de Cayenne should turn out to be this species. The characters of 
the two certainly approximate ; but as I have not been enabled to 
settle the question of their identity in my own mind, I shall, for 
the present, let the affair rest. 
