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A DESCRIPTION OF 
water, but often at a considerable distance from it; in 
which case the female will take the young ones in her 
beak, or between her legs to the water. They have some- 
times been known to lay their eggs in a high tree, in a 
deserted magpie's or crow's nest; arid an instance has 
been recorded of one being found at Etchingham, in 
Sussex, sitting upon nine eggs in an oak, at the height of 
twenty-five feet from the ground : the eggs were sup- 
ported by some small twigs laid cross ways. 
The tame Ducks, reared about mills and rivers, or 
wherever there is a sufficient quantity of water for them 
to indulge their sports and to search for food, become a 
branch of trade, which proves very profitable to their 
owners. 
THE WIGEON (Anas Penelope,) 
Weighs about twenty-two ounces, and feeds upon grass 
and roots growing at the bottom of lakes, rivers, and 
ponds. The plumage of this bird is much variegated, and 
its flesh esteemed a great delicacy, though not so highly 
praised as that of the teal. The bill of the Wigeon is black ; 
the head and upper part of the neck of a bright bay ; the 
back and sides under the wings waved with black and 
