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8. 
BLUE-WINGE 
G. 
DescRipTion. 
COMMON 
° 
Di °C ke 
Anas c#rule'cens, Jad Orn. ii. p. 836. 13- 
Blue-winged Guofe, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 469. 28.—Bartr. Trav. p. 292. 
‘HITS fpecies is apt to vary much. I have received feveral from 
Hudfor’s Bay; one of them correfponded exactly with our de- 
feription in the Synopfis ; another had the head and a little part of the 
neck white, behind mixed with black; half the neck before white ; 
the reft of the bird much the fame as in common. In a third, the 
head, all the neck, the whole of the body, except between the wings, 
of a pure white: at the lower part of the neck behind, and between 
the wings, dufky black, or deep lead colour: fcapulars the fame, 
margined with white: wing coverts as generally feen in this fpecies, 
but paler, and inclined to white: the fecond and third greater quills 
black; all the fecondaries black, beautifully fringed on each fide with 
white, purer than in the others, but not unlike: tail white; the four 
middle feathers pale lead colour, down the middle, half way from the 
bafe. A ticket affixed to this laft bird, fays, that it is produced from 
a Blue anda White Wayway *; but this is only according to the tra- 
dition of the Indians. 
Anas anfer, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 841. 26.—.Ger. Ora. y. t. 561. 1. 558. 559. 560. 
— Sepp. Vog. iii. t. 105. 
Grey Lag, and tame Goofe, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 459. 21.—IZd. Sup. p. 273. 
N the ftricteft examination of the trachea of both fexes of the 
Goo/ey {carcely any difference can be found between them, ex- 
cepting that of the male appears to be the thicker and larger of the 
two. 
Every one experiences the utility of the feathers of the Goofe; all 
of which are applied to the various wants in life; and the quills in 
= Snow Goofe, Gen. Syn, vi. Pp. 445. 10. 
particular, 
