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44* DUCK, 



condaries green : quills and tail black. Clayton, in his account 

 of Falkland's Iftands, mentions a bird by the name of Mountain 

 . ■Goofs * : he fays, it is larger than the Mufcovy Duck : the plu- 

 mage on the back fpeckled brown and greenifh black, and to- 

 wards the neck turns of a gloffy beautiful gold-colour: the bread 

 coloured like a Pheafant. This, he obferves, always feeds on 

 the mountains ; is pleafant tafted, and preferable to the other 

 forts ; but is fcarce. "But all Geefe are beft in autumn, when the 

 cranberries are ripe, on which they feed. 



He likewife talks of another, as large as a tame Goofe. The 

 Gander black and white, fpeckled : the Goofe almoft like the 

 Mountain Goofe, but darker, and not fo beautiful. Thefe feed 

 in the valiies, on wild cranberries and grafs ; and are good food 

 in genera], but beft. and fatteft in February, March, and A-prih 

 The firft of thefe two appears to be our prefent-defcribed fpecies; 

 as to the laft, we cannot determine it for want of a better de- 

 fcription. 



7 . Lev. Muf. (the female.) 



ANTARCTIC G. 



Descri-ption. 'TpHIS is fmaller than a tame Goofe : weight fixteen pounds. 

 Bill narrow, fhort, and black : the whole plumage of a daz- 

 zling fnowy whitenefs : on the bend of the wing a blunt knob : 

 legs yellow. 

 Female. The female has the bill and legs the fame as in the male, but 



the firft of a reddifh flefh-colour : head, neck, and body, black, 

 crofTed with tranfverfe white lines ; thofe of the head and neck 



* Phil. Traiif. Ixvi. p. ion 



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