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In England they are fufficiently common, and freely mix with 

 the common Goofe, the breeds uniting 4s freely, and continuing to 

 produce as certainly, as if no fuch mixture had taken place: they 

 are a much more noify race than the common tame Geefe, taking 

 alarm at the leaft noife j and even without diftuibance will emit 

 their harm and difagreeable fcream the whole day through. They 

 walk very erect, with the neck much elevated, and as they bear 

 a middle line between that of the Swan and Goofe, they have not 

 improperly been called Swan-Goofe. 



Anfer melanotos, Zool. Ind. p. 21. t. 11. 13. 



L'Oie bronze, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 77. BLACK-BACKED 



Oie de la Cote de Coromandel, PL Enl. 937. 

 Black-backed Goofe, Ind. Zool. p. 12. pi. 11. 



G. 



CIZE of a Goofe, but of a more flender make: length two Description. 



feet nine inches. Bill pale, large, curved downwards at the 

 point j in the middle, over the noftrils, rather more forward, 

 a large rounded flefhy excrefcence, or knob, the fame colour as 

 the bill: the head, and half the neck, white, full of black dots, 

 or fhort ftreaks ; the feathers of thofe parts as it were ruffled 

 or reflected j the reft of the neck, and under parts, are white, 9 



tinged with grey on the fides : the back, wings, and tail, black, 

 bronzed with green, and inclining to blue towards the tail : legs 

 dulky. 



This fpecies is very common in the ifland of Ceylon, and alfo Placi. 



inhabits the coaft of Coromandel. Buffon fuppofes this may prove 

 the Goofe, called Rajfangue, having a red crejl on the head, found 



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