[1] When I said "Wilson" above I find I was slightly mistaken. I
remembered reading it long ago in the first edition I possessed of this
writer's works--the little four-volume set edited by Prof. Jameson
for "Constable's Miscellany," Edinburgh, 1831, and taking down the
book now, which I have not opened for years, I find the passages in
question (Vol. iv, pp. 245 _et seq._) form part of an appendix drawn
from Richardson and Swainson's "Northern Zoology," and that the real
authority is Audubon.
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