464 DUCK. 



pretty frequent in Sibiria, and the Eafi of Ruffia *. Is alfo 

 common in the fummer at Hudfon's Bay, where it is called, 

 Sajajquepethefne ; and very numerous along with other forts j\ 



2 3- Bear.-Goofe, Br. Zool. ii. N° 267.— Ara. Zool. N° 462. 



BEAN G. t m r 



Lev. MuJ. 



Description. j ENGTH two feet feven inches: extent four feet eleven: 

 weight fix pounds and a half. The bill fmall, much com- 

 prefled near the end, whirifh, and fometimes pale red in the 

 middle ; and black at the bafe and nail : head and neck cinereous 

 brown, tinged with ferruginous : breaft and belly dirty white, 

 clouded with cinereous : fides and fcapulars dark afh-colour, 

 edged with white : the back of a plain afh-colour : coverts of 

 the tail white : leiTer coverts of the wings light grey, nearly 

 white: the middle deeper, tipped with white: primaries and 

 fecondaries grey, tipped with black : feet and legs faffron-colour : 

 claws black. 



The above are the common colours and dimenfions of the 

 Bean-Goofe, as Mr. Pennant has thus defcribed it : but a fpeci- 

 men in my poffeffion varies both in weight and fize, as well as 

 in being fomewhat differing in plumage: the length of mine is 

 full three feet : weight feven pounds five ounces : bill, from the 

 noftrils to the nail, deep brownifh red: leffer wing coverts grey; 

 the greater the fame, tipped with white : "fecond quills as the 

 laft, but tipped and margined with white : greater quills plain 

 dufky black : legs dull brownifh red : claws black : in other 

 things it anfwers to the defcription in the Britijh Zoology. 



■ * Ar8. Zool. f Mr. Hutchins. 



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