Class IL BRENTGOOSE. 579 



• thought by ibme writers to have been the Chena- 

 lopeces of Pliny : they fhould have faid Chenerotes ; 

 for thofe were the birds that naturalift faid were 

 found in Britain ; but as he has fcarce left us any 

 defcription of them ; it is difficult to fay which fpe- 

 cies he intended. I mould imagine it to be the 

 following; the Brent -goof e^ which is far inferior m 

 fize to the wild goofe, and very delicate food *: in 

 both refpects fuiting his account of the Cheneros. 



Les Canes de Mer. Behn a<u. Belgh Rotgans, Calmarienfibus 270. Brent, 

 166. Prutgas. Faun. Suec.fp. 115. 



Aldr. av. III. 73. Cimbris Ray-v Rad-Gaas. 



Wil. on:. 360. Norvegis Raat-v. Raatne- 



Raiifyn. a<v. 1 37. Gaa.s. item Goul-V. Gagl. 



Bernacle. Nat. hiji. Ireland. Brnnnich, 52. 



192. Baum-Gans. Frifcb, II. 156. 



Brenta, le Cravant. Brijfon a<v. Br. Zool. 151. 



VI. 304. tab. 31. Branta Bernicla. Scopoli, No. 



Anas Bernicla. Lin. fyjl. 198. 84. 



THIS is inferior in fize to the former: the bill Descrip 

 is one inch and an half long; the color of 

 that, the head, neck, and upper part of the breaft 

 is black ; on each fide the flendereft part of the 

 neck is a white fpot - 5 the lower part of the bread, 

 the fcapulars, and coverts of the wings are afh co- 

 lored, clouded with a deeper made -, the feathers 



* Anferini generis funt Chenalopeces : et quibus lautiores 

 epulas non novit Britannia Chenerotes, fere anfere roinores. 

 Lib. x. c. 22. 



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