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The Goofander. Merganfer. Jyi.(!!'/u.<}^^ 



Numb. LXXXVII. S^S. 



ITS Weight is four Pound ; its Length from the Tip of the Bill to the 

 End of the Tail twenty eight Inches ; its Breadth when extended for- 

 ty Inches ; the Body is long, the Back broad and flat, and the Head and 

 upper part of the Neck is of a dulky yellowifli brown, as is alfo the Creft; 

 the lower back part of the Neck, Pinion of the Wing, Back, and upper 

 Side of its Tail is of a dark cinereous Colour, inclining to a muddy brown ; 

 the fore part of the Neck, Bread, Belly, and under part of the Tail, are 

 of a faint filvery yellow, or Ifabella Colour ; the Tail is made up of eighteen 

 Feathers. Each Wing hath about twenty fix prime Feathers, the ten out- 

 ermofl black, and the four next alfo black, but tipt with white ; the five 

 fucceeding white with their Bottoms black, and the remaining fix or {^w^w 

 next the Body white, with their exterior Edges black ; in the fecond Row 

 of the Wing, thofe incumbent on the white quill Feathers are white from 

 the Tips to the middle, beneath black ; from thence as far as the Baftard 

 Wing are all white, but between thofe white ones, and the long fcapular Fea- 

 thers, fome black ones intervene ; whence if you take the long fcapular 

 Feathers which cover the Back, and fore part of the Wing, the Wings will be, 

 as Aldrovandus defcribes them, black towards the Back, next white, with a 

 certain palenefs ; then black again, but more remifsly ; after that again white. 



The Bill meafured from the Tip to the Corners of the Mouth exceeeds 

 the Length of a Man's middle Finger ; the lower Mandible is of a yellowifli 

 brown, the upper Mandible fomewhat darker inclining to black, and 

 hooked, both upper and lower toothed on both Sides like a Saw, and the 

 Tongue and Palate yellow ; the Ears are round, the Noftrils large, and the 

 lridei> of the Eyes of a fanguine Colour; the Legs and Feet are red, the 

 back Toe broad, with an appendant Membrane, and it hath a huge bony 

 Labyrinth on the Wind-Pipe, juft above the Divarications; and befides,the 

 Wind- Pipe hath two Swellings, one above the other, each refembling a 

 Powder Puff, and out of one there was taken Sprats. 



The Stomach is fcarce mufculous ; out of which was taken a Roach and 

 an Rel ; it hatha Gall-bladder, and the blind Guts were three Inches long, 

 and full of Excrements, The Flefh is not wholefome, having a fifhy un- 

 plealant Tafte, 



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