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// n^h "^^^ Wild Goofe. Anfer Ferns. 



0^^ Numb. XC 



IT S Length from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail is two 

 Foot eleven Inches ; Breadth when the Wings are extended five Foot; 

 the Length of the Neck from the Tip of the Bill to the fetting on of the 

 Wings is feventeen Inches ; its Weight is feven Pound ana a quarter; the 

 Bill two Inches and three quarters; the back part of its Head, Neck and 

 Back, and generally its whole upper Side, excepting the Feathers incum- 

 bent on the Tail, is of a dark brown, yet the uppermoft covert Feathers 

 of the Wings are of a bluifh afh Colour; the fecond, third and fourth 

 Rows of Wing Feathers, and likewife the fcapular ones, have white Edges 

 about their Tips; the Feathers alfo next the Tail are purely white: The 

 Quills of the Wings are twenty feven in Number, of a dark brown almoft 

 black : The Tail is fix Inches long, compofed of eighteen brown Feathers, 

 having their Tips and exterior Edges white ; the Colour of the Breaft and 

 under Side of the Body is a light grey, inclining to brown, by degrees 

 lighter from the Head to the Tail, under which it is perfe6lly white ; the 

 Bill is of a dark Orange or Saffron Colour, and the Tip a light yellow : 

 The upper Mandible all along is toothed or indented with many Rows of 

 fmall Teeth, and the nether only with one Row on each Side ; the Tongue 

 alfo hath on either Side a Row of Teeth in its bordering Membrane ; its 

 Legs and Feet are of a Saffron Colour, its Claws black or livid, and un- 

 der each Eye is a whitifh Line. 





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