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K. 



quent in Hudfon's Bay : breed in the iflands, and along the 

 coaft, but never fly inland : feed about high-water mark : pafs 

 the winter in the fouthern parts, as in Europe. Their food con- 

 fifts of plants, fuch as the /mall bifiort * and Mack-berried heath f, 

 fea-worms, berries, and the like. In one we opened, the ftomach 

 was full of grafs. Are apt to have a fifty tafte, but are in ge- 

 neral thought good food. The fame fable has been told of this 

 bird as of the Bemacle, in refpeft to its being bred from 

 trees. Called at Hudfon's Bay, Wetha may pa wew. 



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Anas ccerulefcens, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 198. 12. 

 L'Oye fauvage de la Baye de Hudfon, Brif. Ortt. vi. p. 275. 5. 

 L'Oie des Efquimaux, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 80. 

 Blue-winged Goofe, Edtv. pi. 152. — Ar£l. Zool. N° 474. 



Lev. Muf. 



28. 

 BLUE-WINGED 

 G. 



HpHIS is rather lefs than the tame. Goofe. The bill is red: Description. 



irides deep chocolate : crown of the head yellowifh, appear- 

 ing as if finged : the reft of the head and neck white, the laft 

 fpotted all the way down at the back part with black : the lower 

 part of the neck, all round the breaft, fides under the wings, and 

 back, dark brown, paleft on the breaft : wing and tail coverts 

 pale blueifh afh-colour : fcapulars and tail -ftriped white and 

 grey : greater quills dufky : belly, thighs, and vent, white : legs 

 red. 



The female has the upper mandible black ; bafe of the lower Femali. 



lead-colour, with the tip black : forehead white : between the 



* Polygonum viviparum. Lin. 

 •J- Empetrum nigrum. Lin, 



bill 



