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ANATIDzE. 
This beautiful duck forms one of the greatest orna¬ 
ments on those lakes and pieces of water which occur 
in pleasure-grounds ; the eggs are, in consequence, eagerly 
sought after and hatched, and the young ones reared for 
sale; the hole in which they are deposited is ascertained 
by attaching a hook to the end of a long stick, and 
thrusting it successively into each till feathers are drawn 
out, and by this same means the eggs are afterwards 
extracted. 
