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ORD. III. GEN. X. GOOSE. 



SPE. VI. BRENT GOOSE. 



PI. 244. 



Anas Bernicla. Lin. Syfi. I. p. 198. 

 Le Cravant. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 304. 



This is a fraall fpecies, weighing fcarcely four pounds. The bill is of a 

 dark lead colour, and not two inches long : the head, neck, and breaft, of a 

 leaden-coloured black : the middle of the neck is fpeckled with white, fo as to 

 form a band : the back and wings are lead colour, mottled with black : wing 

 coverts, nearly black, with pale edges : quills, black : tail feathers, the fame : 

 the rump, and vent, white : breaft, and belly, dull black : legs, black. 



The female, and alfo the young birds, want the white on the neck, and are 

 of a more dingy coloured plumage. 



This fpecies frequents our fea-fhores early in the autumn, and, like the ber- 

 nacle, lives moftly on the falt-water. It is very plentiful in Ireland, where it 

 is efteemed as a delicacy. It breeds in the northern parts of Scotland, the 

 north of Europe, and America. Linnjeus has miftakenly confounded it with 

 the bernacle, and confidered the true bernacle as the male of the white-fronted 

 goofe. 



