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In this country, at any rate, we associate the V-shaped companies of wigeon and gaggles of geese with an ice-bound landscape, though in exceptional years, even where they no longer stay to breed, these night-flying northerners linger to the coming of spring, and Hawker noticed the curious apparition of grey geese and swallows in company on the first day of April, 1839.
A flock of curlew were passing, wailing one to the other, across the sunset; a string of late gulls trailed athwart the sky; and a wedge of those beautiful little wild-duck known as wigeon was letting itself down to the shores of the inlet.
Hist. 2nd series, pp. 42 and 117. For the following statements see on the wigeon, 'Loudon's Mag. of Nat. Hist. vol. ix. p. 616; L. Lloyd, 'Scandinavian Adventures, vol. i. 1854, p. 452. Dixon, 'Ornamental and Domestic Poultry, p. 137; Hewitt, in 'Journal of Horticulture, Jan. 13, 1863, p. 40; Bechstein, 'Stubenvogel, 1840, s. 230. Mr. Many additional instances could be given; and the Rev.
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