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  1. The common pochard or red-headed duck, Fuligula ferina.
  2. The ruddy duck, Erismatura ribida. Nuttall, 1834.
  3. The female scaup duck, Fuligula marila. [Essex, Eng.]

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  • Of such therefore as are bred in our land, we have the crane, the bitter, [1] the wild and tame swan, the bustard, the heron, curlew, snite, wildgoose, wind or doterell, brant, lark, plover (of both sorts), lapwing, teal, widgeon, mallard, sheldrake, shoveller, peewitt, seamew, barnacle, quail (who, only with man, are subject to the falling sickness), the knot, the oliet or olive, the dunbird, woodcock, partridge, and pheasant, besides divers others, whose names to me are utterly unknown, and much more the taste of their flesh, wherewith I was never acquainted. —  Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
 

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