552 ERENT AND BERNACLE GOOSE. 



that feafon*. During winter, they fwarm inHolland and in Ireland; in 

 the firft, every eating-houfe is full of them : in the laft, they are taken 

 ia flight-time, in nets placed acrofs the rivers ; are fattened, and rec- 

 koRed great delicacies. They appear in fmall flocks in Hoy Sound, in 

 the Orknies ; but do not continue there : on the contrary, they winter 

 in llorra Sound, in Schefland, in flocks of two hundred, and are called 

 Horra Geefe f. They retire from Europe to breed in the extreme 

 north. A few, after flying over Sweden, fl:op on the borders of 

 Lapland; but the great bodies of them continue their flight even 

 to the mofl: northern ifles of Greenland %, and to Spitzbergen. Fly 

 in the fh ape of a wedge, and with great clamor. Feed on grafs, 

 water-plants, berries, and worms. Cannot dive. Barentz found 

 multitudes fitting on their eggs, about the 21ft of June 1595, in the 

 great bay called fVii?e Janz Water ; and, to his amazement, difcovered 

 them to be the Rotganfen, which his countrymen, the Dutch, fup- 

 pofed to have been generated from fome trees in Scotland, the fruit 

 of which, when ripe, fell into the fea, and were converted into 

 Goflings II . Thefe birds arrive every year in the eafl: part oi Sibiria, 

 in order to breed ; but are not feen to the weft of the Lena, nor yet 

 in Rujfia. 



47,9. B^RNACLI. Br, Zool. ii. N" 269 — Anas Erythropus (raaf.) ty. Both. — Fiaslgas, Faun, Suec<, 



N° n6. — Anas Helfingen, Olaffin Iceland, ii. tab. 3 3. — Latham, iii. 

 La Bernache, PA £b/. 855. — ^Lev. Mus. — ^Bl. Mus. 



T^^ With white cheeks and forehead: from bill to the eyes runs a 



duflcy line J the refl: of the head, neck, and part of the 



breaft, black : belly, vent, and coverts of tail, white : back, fca- 



pulars, and coverts of wings, barred with black, grey, -and white : 



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* Laiufeti, 1470 t Reverend Mr. ioiu. % Faun. Groenl, K" ^j . 



tl Navigation far la NorJ, Amftelrtiam, 1606, folio, p. 14.— The Engli^ fabled the 

 fame of the Bernacle. See Cirard't Herbal. 



tail 



