Class II. BRENTGOOSE. $79 



thought by fome writers to have been the Chena- 

 lopeces of Pliny : they mould have faid Chenerotes - y 

 for thofe were the birds that naturalift faid were 

 found in Britain ; but as he has fcarce left us any 

 defcription of them •, it is difficult to fay which fpe- 

 cies he intended. I mould imagine it to be the 

 following; the Brent -goof e^ which is far inferior in 

 fize to the wild goofe, and very delicate food *: in 

 both refpects fuiting his account of the Cheneros. 



Les Canes de Mer. Belon av. Belgis Rotgan?, Calmarienfibus 270. Bre?;t, 



166. Prutgas. Faun. Suec.fp. 115. 



Aldr. av. III. 73. Chnbris Ray-v Rad-Gaas. 



Wil. cm. 360. Norvegis Raat-v. Raatne* 



Raiifyn. av. 1 37. Gaas. item Goul-v. Gagl. 



Bernacle. Nat. hifi. Ireland. Brminich y 52. 



192. Baum-Gans. Frifch, II. 156. 



Brenta, le Cravant. Briffbnav. Br. Zool. 151. 



VI. 304. tab. 31. Branta Bernich. Scopoli, No. 



Anas Bemicla. Lin.fyji. 198. 84. 



THIS is inferior in fize to the former: the bill Descrip 

 is one inch and an half long ; the color of 

 that, the head, neck, and upper part of the bread 

 is black ; on each fide the flendereft part of the 

 neck is a white fpot -, the lower part of the bread, 

 the fcapulars, and coverts of the wings are afh co- 

 lored, clouded with a deeper made -, the feathers 



* Anferini generis funt Cbenakpcces : et quibus lautiores 

 epulas non ~vovit Britannia Chenerotes, fere anfere minores. 

 Lib, x. c. 22. 



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