Note 7 — Chapter VIII · DUCK—GOOSE—PEACOCK—TURKEY—GUINEA-FOWL—CANARY-BIRD—GOLD-FISH—RIVER-BEES—SILK-MOTHS.
Reading edition
Dureau de La Malle, in ‘Annales des Sciences Nat.,’ tom. xvii. p. 164; and tom. xxi. p. 55. Rev. E. S. Dixon, ‘Ornamental Poultry,’ p. 118. Tame ducks were not known in Aristotle’s time, as remarked by Volz, in his ‘Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte,’ 1852, s. 78.