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here for the first time I saw endemic Galapagos the pintail ducks [[strikethrough]]family[[/strikethrough]] an families of eight young seems to be the usual number of young. One of the members of our party almost stepped onto [[strikethrough]]the a nest nest the[[/strikethrough]] a mother duck sitting on her eggs. This nest so wonderfully well hidden in high grass, & close to the waters edge, had eight eggs in it. Rarely have I more than glimpsed the wild goats which by the hundreds run wild on several of the islands, particularly James and South Seymour. This year when