BRITISH BIRDS. 
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with in Scania and Gothlandj and in mofl; parts of 
Germany, Ruffia, and Kamtfchatka, — ^and alfo, in 
the winter months, in New York and Carolina, in 
America. 
, This fpecies is of fo wild, fhy, , and folitary a dif- 
pofition, that all attempts hitherto made to domef- 
ticate them have failed. This work was favoured 
with the bird from which the foregoing figure and 
defcription were taken, by the author’s friends at 
Cambridge. 
The Anas 7nufcaria of Linnaeus ( Le Souchet a 
ventre blanc of Briflbn) differs only from this in 
having the belly white, and is confidered merely 
a variety of the fame fpecies. 
