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The gray brant or barnicle, is here very plenti- 

 ful, as all other water fowl are, in the winter 

 season. They are the same which they call barni- 

 cles in Great Britain, and are a very good fowl, 

 and eat well. 



There is also a white brant, very plentiful in 

 America. This bird is all over as white as snow, 

 except the tips of his wings, and those are black. 

 They eat the roots of sedge and grass in the 

 marshes and savannas, which they tear up like 

 hogs. The best way to kill these fowl is, to burn 

 a piece of marsh, or savanna, and as soon as it is 

 burnt, they will come in great flocks to get the 

 roots, where you kill what you please of them. 

 They are as good meat as the other, only their 

 feathers are stubbed, and good for little. 



The sea pie, or gray curlue, is about the bigness 

 of a very large pigeon, but longer. He has a long 

 bill as other curlues hare, which is the color of an 

 English owsels, that is, yellow, as are his legs. 

 He frequents the sand beaches on the sea side, and 

 when killed, is inferior to no fowl I ever eat of. 



"Will willet, is so called from his cry, which he 

 very exactly calls, will willet, as he flies. His bill 

 is like a eurlues, or wood" cock's, and has much 

 such a body as the other, yet not so tall. He is 

 good meat. 



The great gray gulls are good meat, and as large 

 as a pullet. They lay large eggs, which are found 

 in very great quantities on the islands in our 

 sound, in the months of June and July. The 



