& 



440- DUCK. 



a flock with boats, and drive them on fliorej where, unable 

 to raife themfelves from the ground, they ran very faft, but foon 

 growing tired, and fquatting down to reft, were eafily overtaken, 

 and knocked on the head. Their flefli was fometimes eaten by 

 the Jailors, in defect of that of the Buftard Gooje, but it was not 

 much relifhed, being rank and fifhy, and thought more fit for 

 the hogs, which, after it had been boiled in the copper, ate it 

 greedily, and fatted well. 



j. L'Oie des Ifles Malouines, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 6g. 



BUSTARD G- White-winged Antarctic Goofe, Brown 111. pi. 40. 



Buftard Goofe, Bong. Vcy. p. 59. 

 Outarde, Hift. de la Lout/, ii. p. 113? 

 Sea Goofe, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixvi. p. 104. (Clayton.) 

 Br, Muf. 



Description. ENGTH from thirty-two to forty inches. Bill fcarcely two 



inches in length, and black : head, neck, lelTer wing coverts, 

 and under parts of the body, white : the lower part of the neck 

 behind, and as far as the middle of the back, croffed with nu- 

 merous dufky black lines : fides over the thighs the feme : the 

 greater wing coverts black, tipped with white, forming a bar of 

 white on the wing; at the bend a blunt knob: fecond quills 

 part black, part white ; prime ones dufky black : fpeculum dark 

 green : the two middle tail feathers black, the others white : legs 

 black. 



A fecond of thefe, in the Britijh Mufeum, had almoft the 

 whole of the neck croffed with dulky lines, and the wings with- 

 out 



