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Brent 
Geefe. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
the fpecies of Geefe that frequent Hudfon’s Bay, 
as they frequently weigh fixteen or feventeen 
pounds. They differ from the Common Grey | 
Goofe in nothing but in fize, and in the head and 
breaft being tinged with arufty brown, They 
never make their appearance in the Spring till 
the greateft part of the other fpecies of Geefe are 
flown Northward to breed, and many of them 
remain near Churchill River the whole Summer. 
This large fpecies are generally found to be males, 
and from the exceeding {mallnefs of their tefti- 
cles, they are, I fuppofe, incapable of propagating 
their {pecies. 1 believe I can with truth fay, that 
I was the firft European who made that remark, 
though they had always been diftinguifhed by the 
name of the Barren Geefe;, for no other reafon 
than that of their not being known to breed. 
Their flefh is by no means unpleafant, though al- 
ways hard and tough; and their plumage is fo 
thick before they begin to moult, that one bird 
ufually produces a pound of fine feathers and 
down, of a furprifing elatticity. 
Beent Guxse. ‘This fpecies certainly breed in 
the remoteft parts of the North, and feldom make 
their appearance at Churchill River till late in 
Auguft or September. ‘The rout they take in 
Spring is unknown, and their breeding-places 
have never been difcovered by any Indian in 
Hudfon’s Bay. When they make their appear- 
ance at Churchill River, they always come from 
the North, fly near the margin of the coaft, and 
are never {een in the interior parts of the country. 
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