PETREL. GOOSANDER. 



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placesj and December one of the months in which they perform the firft 

 great command of perpetuating their race. 



Latham, vi. 408. — Lev. Mus. 



P. With a black bill, an inch and a half long : chin, throat, and 

 fpace round its bafe, of a pale filvery grey, minutely fpeckled with 

 duflcy : crown, upper part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, of a 

 footy black, a little hoary on the back : whole lower part of neck and 

 body of a hoary afh : tail rounded at the end : legs, and one third of 

 the length of the webs, very pale : the reft of the webs and the joints 

 of the toes black. Length thirteen inches. 



From a fpecimen in the Leverian Mufeum, fuppofed to come from 

 the weftern fide of North America. 



BLACK-TOED., 



Latham, vi. 416.— 5r. Muf. DUSKY. 



P. With a dufl'cy bill, an inch and an half long : inftead of tubular 

 noftrils, only two fmall apertures : upper part of the body duiky black, 

 lower white : fides of the neck mottled with brown and white : edges 

 of the middle coverts of the wings whitifh : legs placed as far behind 

 as the vent, duflcy on their outfides, pale on the inner : two inner 

 toes yellowifh : webs orange. Length thirteen inches. 



Inhabits Nootka found j and Chriftmas ifle, in the Pacific ocean> place. 



lat. I. c^^. north, long. 202.. 30. Eaft, 



The Goosander, fears lefs the cold than the ice, the laft preventing 537<> 



It from feeding : one was feen in Heljingeland, in the month of January^ 

 in the moft intenfe cold. It returns among the firft birds in the fpring. 

 It lays fourteen eggs, fometimes in hollow trees, fometimes under 

 bufhes. The males, in the month of July, often fleep on the water with 

 their heads under their wings. They feed chiefly on Blennies. 



The Mergus Cafior of Linn^us, is the female of this fpecies. 



L. The 



