SjrOW AND BRENT GOOSE. SS^ 



or dfe form a hovel of fkins fewed together. This done, one of the 

 company dreffes himfelf in the fkin of a white rein-deer, advances 

 towards the flock of Geefe, and then turns back towards the net or 

 the hovel j and his companions go behind the flock, and, by making 

 a noife, drive them forward. The fimple birds miflake the man in 

 white for their leader, and follow him within reach of the net, which 

 is fuddenly pulled down, and captivates the whole. When he chufes 

 to condudt them to the hovel, they follow in the fame manner j he 

 creeps in at a hole left for that purpofe, and out at another on the 6p- 

 pofite fide, which he clofes up. The Geefe follow him through the firfl:; . 

 and as foon as they are got in, he pafies round, and fecures every 

 one*. In that frozen clime, they afford great fubfiftence to the natives ; . 

 and the feathers are an article of commerce. Each family will kill 

 thoufands in a feafon. Thefe they pluck and gut; then fling them 

 in heaps into holes dug for that purpofe, and cover them with no- 

 thing more than the earth. This freezes, and forms over them an 

 arch J and whenever the family has occafion to open one of thefe 

 magazines, they find their provifion Tweet and good. . 



Br. ZddI. ii. N" 270. — Anas Hrota, Muller, N°ii5. — Anas Bernicla. Eelgis • 478. Brbnt. 

 Rotgans. Calmariens Prutgas, Faun. Suec. N° 1 15. — Latham, iii. • 

 — Lev. Mus. 



• T^^ With a fhort, blacky elevated bill : head;, neck, and upper part 



of the breaft, black : a white fpot marks each fide of the 



neck near its junftion with the head : primaries and tail black : 



belly, fcapulars, and coverts of -the wings, cinereous, clouded with 



a deeper : coverts of tail and the -vent white: legs black. 



Is frequent in Hiidjon's Bay. Breed in the iflands, and along the Pi ace, 



coafl:s ; but never fly inland. Feed about high-water mark. Re- 

 turn towards the fouth in vafl: flocks in autumn. Probably they 

 winter in Carolina; for Law/on m&nxiom z Grey Brent frequent in 



• The Kamtfchatkans ufe the fame method in taking Geefe. Defer, Kamtjchatka, 496. 



that 



