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are thought a great ornament to the pieces of water in many 

 gentlemen's feats, where they are very familiar, and breed freely. 

 The flefh of the young birds is accounted good ; and the fea- 

 thers equal to thofe of other Geefe, infomuch as to prove an ar- 

 ticle of commerce, much in the favour of thofe places where 

 they are in fufficient numbers. 



55. Anas Gambenfis, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 195. 3. 



SFUR-WINGED L » 0ye de Qambie, B'rif. Qrn. vi. p. 283. 8. 



L'Oie armee, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 76 ? 

 Pl - CIL Gambo Goofe, Rail Syn, p. 138. 9.— Will, Orn. p. 360. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description, CIZE of the common Gooje, but ftands higher on its legs. The 

 bill more than two inches long, of a red colour, and at the 

 bafe of it a red protuberance : the cheeks and chin are white: 

 the neck, fides of the bread, back, rump, and tail, black, inclining 

 to purple on the back: the middle of the breaft, and all the un- 

 der parts, white : the outer wing coverts, the bend, and inner 

 ridge, the fame ; but the reft of the wing black ; on the bend a 

 ftrong, fharp fpur, an inch and a half long, and horn-coloured : 

 the legs red. 

 Place. Inhabits Gambia, and other parts of Africa. At Senegal is 



called Hitt *. 



Buffon'% defcription of this bird (if he means what we have 

 defcribed above) is delivered in a very obfcure and unintelligent 

 manner. Ray and Willughbfs fimple defcription prove them to 

 have been the only perfons who had formed a right idea of the 

 bird ; for on comparing the text of the Hi/}, des Oi/eaux with the 



* gift, des Oif. 



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