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head and neck brown, deeper! at the hind part : back, wings> 

 and tail the fame, but deeper, and margined with a paler colour r 

 the quills, breaft, and belly, white. 

 Female. The female is fmaller than the male.. The head, neck, and 



breaft are fulvous \ paler on the upper part : the back, wings, 

 and tail, dull brown, with pale edges : belly white : in other 

 things agrees with the male, but the knob over the bill is 

 fmaller. 



Such are the defcriptions of Briffon, fuppofing the above 

 birds to be diftincl: ; but later obfervations inform us, that 

 they all belong to one fpecies, the characteriftic marks of which 

 are the knob over the bill, and the ioofe fkin under the chin. 

 We are inclined alfo to think, that the bird often varies, with 

 the bill, knob, and legs, black ; as the major part which have 

 come under our infpection have been of that colour. 

 Place and The firft-defcribed is faid to come from the coaft of Guinea. ;. 



the laft, to inhabit the Ruffian dominions ; and we are well af- 

 fured, that the fpecies is found wild about the Lake Baikal, in 

 the eaft of Sibiria, and in Kamtfchatka *. They are alfo kept 

 tame in moft parts of the Ruffian empire -j\ Thefe birds like- 

 wife inhabit China, and are common at the Cape of Good Hope J:. 

 our laft voyagers met alfo with this, or one very like it, at 

 Oivhybee §.. 



* ArSi. ZooL f Dec. Ruff. i. p. 466. — Frequent at Aftrachan. 



% This is no doubt the fpecies mentioned by Kolben, called Grcp-Goofe ; who 

 fays, that the failors make tobacco-pouches, and purjfes, of the membrane which 

 hangs beneath the throat, as it is fufficiently tough for fuch ptirpofes, and wilt 

 hold two pounds of tobacco. — Hiji. Cap. ii. p. 139. 



§ A Goofe, like the China Goo/e, at Karacakooab Bay, in Qwhybee, quits 

 tame, called there Na-na>—- Ellis's Narr. ii. p. 143.. 



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