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FRANK FORESTER S FIELD SPORTS. 
Duck Creek, in the State of Delaware.”— Wilson's American 
Ornithology. 
The three birds of the genus Mergus, namely the Goosander, 
vulgo , Shelldrake —Mergus Merganser ; the Red-Breasted 
Merganser— Mergus Serrator ; and the Hooded Merganser— 
Mergus Cucullatus —though all well known sea fowl, all hand¬ 
some birds, and all occasionally shot, are utterly unworthy to 
be called game, and unfit for the food of man. Merely to be 
named, is, for these, almost too much honor. 
And here ends the list and descriptions of the Shore Birds and 
Sea Fowl of the United States. A notice is to ensue of the va¬ 
rious modes by which they are captured, and then we pass on 
to a nobler division of our subject, the hunting proper, and 
wilder sports and animals of the Western States, and the 
great occidental wilderness. 
Note to Third Edition. —For account, with particulars of a new 
Duck, supposed to be nondescript, killed by the author in the Severn 
River, Lake Huron, in the Autumn of 1849, 6ee Appendix F. 
