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Numb. XCIII. S^J • 



ITS Length is twenty five Inches from the Tip of the Bill 

 to the End of the 1 ail ; the Breadth when the Wings are 

 extended three Foot feven Inches and a half; Weight three 

 Pound ten Ounces ; the Head, Neck, and upper Part of the 

 Breall are a dark brown inclining to black, and in fome of 

 them about the middle of the Neck, on each Side, is a fmall 

 Spot or Line of w-hite, which together appear like a Ring 

 of white ; the Back is fomething darker than that of the com-- 

 mon Gooje \ the Feathers next to the Tail are white : the 

 Breaft is of a dark grey, and the lower Belly white; the 

 Tail, and greater quill Feathers of the Wings black, and the 

 leiTer of a dark grey ; the Bill is fmall and black, an Inch 

 and three quarters long, thicker towards the Head, and {len- 

 der towards the Tip; the Eyes hazel coloured, the Noftrils 

 great, and the Feet black, having the back Toe. 



Mr. Ra^ is of the Opinion that the Brent GooJe differs ■ 

 fpecifically from the Barnacle ; however. Writers of Hiftor/ 

 of Birds confound them, and make thefe Words fynoni- 

 mous ; he having feen both the Kinds in His Majeftfs Tark 

 at St. James's^ alfo one of the Bodies fluff ed of the Brent Goqfe 

 at Mr. Johnfons at BrignaJ in Torkjhire, and that of tho: 

 Barnacle in Sir pf^illiam Fojiers Hall z.t Bamburgh in Nor- 

 thumherland. 



See Aldrovandus Ornhhologiay Book III. Chap. 37. and 

 Book XIX. Chap. 37. 



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