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trade of our own country, attempted to render 
them fit for use, first by baking, then by boiling 
them; but their stench was so offensive, that the 
‘Glasgow merchants could not be prevailed on to 
leave “off their correspondence with Dantzic. 
» The disagreeable smell of these feathers must be 
owing to the quantity of oil that all water fowls 
use from the glandules of their rump, to preserve 
and smooth their feathers; and as sea birds must 
expend more of this unction than other water 
fowl, being almost perpetually on that element, 
and as their food is entirely fish, that oil must 
receive a great rankness, and communicate it to 
the plumage, so as to render it absolutely unfit 
for use. 
Anas segetum. A. cinereo-fus- pice albo. Luth. Ind. orn, 4. Bray 
ca, subtus albida, alis gris- 843. id. Syn. vi. 464. GOOSE. 
eis, tectricibus majoribus Anas segetum. Gm. Lin. 512. 
- remigibusque secundariis a- Br. Zool. ii. 575. Arct. Zool. 
ul. 207. 
Tue length of this species is two feet seven Dzscri- 
inches ; the extent four feet eleven; the weight *°” 
six pounds and a half. The bill, which is the 
chief specific distinction between this and the 
preceding, is small, much compressed near the | 
end, whitish and sometimes pale redin themiddle, 
