DUCK. 463 



The Goofe in general breeds only once in a year, but will fre- 

 quently have two hatches in a feafon, if well kept. The time 

 of fitting is about thirty days. They will alfo produce eggs fuf- 

 ficient for three broods, if they -are taken away in fuccefllon. 

 It is faid to be very long-lived, as we have authority for their 

 arriving at no lefs than a hundred years *. 



Anas erythropus, Faun. Saec. N* 116. (the female) Brun. N° 53.— 22 -' 



Mulhr, N° ii$.—Kram. EL p. 339. 6,—Georgi Rei/e, p. 166. WHITE-FRONT- 



L'Oye fauvage du Nord, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 269. 3. 



rieufe, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 81. 



Laughing Goofe, Edw. pi. 153. 



White-fronted Goofe, Br. Zool. ii. N° 268. pi. 94. 1. (the head). — Ar£i. 

 Zool. N° 476. 



Lev. Maf. 



ClZE of the Grey-Lag: length two feet four inches: weight Description. 



five pounds. The bill is yellowifh red, elevated at the bafe ; 

 the nail at the tip white : the forehead, and all round the bafe 

 of the bill, white : the head, neck, and upper parts, are for the 

 moft part dark brown, with a little mixture of a(h-colour on the 

 wings : the belly and under parts white, which furrounds the rurnp 

 likewife : the two firft marked with black fpots : legs the colour 

 of the bill : claws very pale. 



This fpecies is found in the fenny parts of England, in fmall Place and 

 flocks, in the winter feafon, but migrates before the end of 

 March. In refpect to this country, are not plentiful. 



In fummer inhabits the north of Europe and AJia ; at times 



* See Wilhgbby.—Uift. des Oif. &c. 

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Manners, 



