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clamour ; called in Shetland, Horra Geese, from being found in that 

 Sound ; appear also in the Orknies, but do not continue there. 



The Brent Goose is known in some parts of England by the 

 name of Rat or Road Goose; also Clatter Goose. Colonel Montagu 

 adds the name of Quink Goose.* Met with also at Oonalashka and 

 Shumagin Islands, by Capt. Billings.t 



In America, frequent Hudson's Bay, and breed in the adjacent 

 Islands, but never fly inland ; feed about high water mark, return 

 towards the south in vast flocks in autumn ; they probably pass the 

 winter in Carolina, as Lawson mentions a Grey Brent frequent in 

 that season ; called at Hudson's Bay, Wetha may pa wew : they stay 

 therefor about three months, and are very numerous. Those seen in 

 Europe retire to the extreme north to breed ; a few, after flying over 

 Sweden, stop on the borders of Lapland ; but the main body of them 

 continue their flight even to the most northern Isles of Greenland J 

 and to Spitzbergen. Their food chiefly consists of plants, such as 

 the small bistort, § and black-berried heath, || berries, sea worms, and 

 the like. In one we opened, the stomach was full of grass. They 

 are in general thought to be good food, though some are apt to have 

 a fishy taste. The same fable has been told of this as of the Bernacle, 

 in respect to its being bred from trees. 



36— TORRID DUCK. 



Anas Torrida, Tnd. Orn. ii. 845. Gm. Lin. i. 516. Scop. i. No. 86. 

 Torrid Duck, Gen. Si/n. Sup. ii. 349. 



SIZE of the Crested Duck. The head white; upper part of 

 the neck black ; beneath chestnut. 



* Orn. Diet. In Boi/s's Coll. for Sandwich, I. p. 311, it is said, when the Mayor conies 

 into the hall, at St. Peter's, a bell, called Brandegoose Bell, shall ring - , and continue for 

 half an hour, &c. t See Voy. p. 179. 



% They frequent the northern parts in summer, migrating in flocks to the south, in 

 winter. — Fn. groenl. 



§ Polygonum viviparum.— Lin. || Empetrum nigrum.— Ian. 



