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numbers are met with together. On the continent they are mi- 

 gratory, changing place in large flocks, often five hundred or 

 more : in this cafe the flock is triangular in fhape, with one point 

 foremofl j and as the Goofe which is firft is tired fooneft, it ha s 

 been feen to drop behind, and another to take his place. In 

 very fmall flocks, however, they are fometimes feen to follow one 

 another in a direct line. Geefe feem to be general inhabitants of 

 the globe; are met with in Iceland, and on the continent, from 

 Lapland to the Cape of Good Hope *. Are frequent in Arabia -f-, 

 Perfia, and China, as well as indigenous to Japan J; and on the 

 American continent, from Hudfon's Bay to South Carolina §. Our 

 voyagers alfo met with them in the ftraits of Magalhaen ||, Port 

 Egmont in Falkland IJles **, and Terra del Fuego -ft. Alfo in 

 New Holland, though not at New Zealand, as we find Captain 

 Cook making the inhabitants a prefent of a pair in order to breed. 

 We believe that this is the fort called at Hudfon's Bay, Miftuhay 

 Neffcock, or Grey Goofe, weighing about nine pounds. They 

 breed in the plains along the coaft : moult in July, and are 

 knocked on the head by the inhabitants, as they cannot then flyi 

 though fome are faved alive, and fed on corn. They depart fouth 

 in September %%. 



* Kolben. f Forfchal, p. 3 . N° 6 ; called Uas araki. % Kamffer. 



§ Kalm Tram. || Hanxikef. Voy. ii. p. 31. •• Id. p. 65. 



•J-f Cook's Voy. iv. p. 43. 



IX It is probably this fort that Kalm mentions the taming of by the Americans? 

 taking the; chance of fhooting them in the wing. Thefe will often grow tame, 

 though old birds, and have been kept for a dozen years ; but never familiarize 

 with the tame ones, nor lay eggs. — Tram. i. p. 209. 



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