548 - BERING AND WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE= 



475. Bering. i"^^ With a yellow excrefcence at the bafc of the bill, radiated in- 



the middle with blueifh black feathers : round the ears & 

 fpace' of greenilh white : eyes black> encircled with yellow, and 

 rayed with black : back, fore part of the neekj and belly, white : 

 wings black : hind part of the neck blueilli. Size of a connmoa 

 Wild Goofe. — Steller's 'Dejcr. * 

 Place. Obferved by Mr. Steller, in July, on the ifle of Bering. They 



probably came from America. It is the remark of that great natu- 

 ralift, during his ftay on that ifland, that Gtt(e: of various kinds 

 migrated this way to and from America to Afia, in vaft flocks. la 

 the fpring they came from the weft, in autumn from the eaft ; which 

 proves, that the Water-Fowl of thefe latitudes prefer, for breeding- 

 places, the Aftatic waftes to thofe of America* 



4.76 White- £r. Zoo/. ii. N° 258.' — Anas Erythropus Fiaelgas, Fa««. 5««f. N° 116. — Latham,\\\. 

 'RONTED Goose. Laughing Goofe, Ediu. 153, — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



"VS, With a pale yellow elevated bill : forehead white : head and' 



neck of a cinereous brown,, darkeft on the crown : coverts of 



the v/ings grey, edged with brown : breaft of an afli-color, clouded 



•with a deeper : belly white, marked with large black fpots : coverts- 



of the tail and the vent white : tail dufky, edged with white : legs. 



Size. orange. Length two feet four. Extent four feet fix. Weight five. 



pounds and a half. 



PiAcs. Inhabits, during fummer,. Hudfon's Bay^. and the north of Europe^. 



Breeds alfb in the extreme north of Afia ; and ia its migration is 



very frequently fcattered over Sihiria. Migrates over only the eaft 



of Rujfta J and is very fcarce in the weft. Mr. Fabricius fufpefts that 



they are found in Greenland f, 



* See Defer, Ksmtfcbatka^ 496, 7, f Fauti^ Gtosnl, p.. 66. 



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