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The Cock GooJa\ider. Merganfer Mas, 



Numb. CI. ^ 



T T S Weight is four Pound ; its Length, from the Tip of the Bill to- 

 -^ the End of the Tail, is twenty eight Inches; its Breadth, when the 

 Wings are extended, forty Inches : the Body long, the Back broad and. 

 flat ; the Head and upper Part of the Neck black, below that white, 

 as it were a broad Ring ; the Breaft of a beautiful chefnut Colour, with 

 tranfverfe Lines of dusky brown; the upper fide of the Neck more ob-^ 

 fcurc inclining to black; the Belly of a yellowifh white, ns is alfo the 

 under fide of the Tail ; the Wing hath about twenty fix Quill-Feathers 

 moftly black, the next Decad white with a Bar of black between them 

 and the fecond, and alfo between the upper covert Feathers, and the 

 third Decad with a Border of black round the Wing; the upper part 

 of the Back black : the Tail is compofed of eighteen black Feathers. 



The Bill was four Inches and a quarter long, from the Tip to the Angles 

 of the Mouth, of a red Colour, hooked, and the upper and lower 

 Mandible toothed on both Sides like a Saw ; the Tongue and Palate _ 

 yellow ; the Ears are round, the Noftrils large, the Irides of the Eyes 

 of a fanguine Colour. 



The Legs and Feet red, the back Toe broad with an appendant 

 Membrane. It hath a huge bony Labyrinth, on the Wind-pipe jufh 

 above the Divarications. 



The Stomach is fcarce mufculous, out of which was taken feveral 

 fmall Fifli; it hatli a Gall-bladder; the blind Guts were three Inches 

 long, and full of Excrements. The Flefli is not wjiolefottie _ having^ a 

 ijifhy unpleafant Tafle. 



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