Class II. B E R N A C L E. 57 y 



rounded with a white ring. The bread and belly 

 of a dirty white, marked with great ipots of black : 

 the legs yellow : the nails whitifh. 



Thefe vifit the fens and other parts of England History. 

 during winter, in fmall flocks : they keep always 

 in marfhy places, and never frequent the corn 

 lands. They difappear in the earlieft fpring, and 

 none are feen after the middle of March. Linnaeus 

 makes this goofe the female of the Bemacle-, but we 

 think his opinion not well founded. 



Doctor Lifter adds two other fpecies to the lift 

 of Englijh geefe ; one he calls the great Black Goofe 

 or Whilk ; the other the fmall Spanijb Goofe, which 

 he fays is of the fame color with the common goofe; 

 but is no larger than the Brents but each fpecies has 

 hitherto eluded our moft diligent enquiry. 



I muft conclude this fubjecl: with obferving that 

 the goofe was one of the forbidden foods of the 

 Britons in the time of C<zfar. 



L'Oye nonnctte ou Cravant. La Bernache. Brijjon av. VI. 269. Ber- 



Be/on av. 158. 3 00. kacle 



Brenta, vel Bernicla. Gefner Anas Erythropus (mas), Lin. 



av. 109. no. fyft. 197. 



Aldr. aw. III. 73. Phil.Tr. Fisellgas. Faun. Suec.fp. 116. 



II.853. Schottische Gans. Frifc£,lh 



Bernacle, or Clakis. Wil. am. 189. 



Raiifyn. av. 137. Anfer brendinus. Caii opufc. 



Sibb. hiji. Scot. 21. 87. 



Gerard's Herbal. I $87. Crantz's Greenl. I. 80. 



Br. Zool. 150. 



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HIS bird weighs about five pounds; the Descrif. 

 length is two feet one inch; the breadth four 



feet 



