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Gauca-gaucu. Razz Syn. p. 130. 12. 
Wil]. .Orn. pi. 352. ; 
Gavia Hyberna, le Mouette Whiver. Brifon av. 6. 189. 
The length of this bird is eighteen inches: breadth three feet fix 
inches ; weight feventeen ounces. It is a common bird in England, 
and frequents the inland rivers, fens, and moift meadows many miles 
diftant from the fea fhore in winter. | 
Mr. Pennant obferves, that the gelatinous fubftance, known by 
the name of Star Shot, or Star. Gelly, owes its origin to this bird, or 
fome of the kind; being nothing but the half digefted remains of 
Earth-W orms, on which thefe birds feed, and often difcharge them 
from their ftomachs. 
Mr. Morton in the Nat. Hip. Northampt. has given alfo the fol- 
Jowing curious obfervation :—“ In the courfe of my corref{pondence 
with the late Mr. % Platt of Oxford, I recolle&t his having men- 
tioned, that once meeting with a lump of this flar-jelly, on examina- 
tion he found the toes of a-Frog or Toad ftill adhering, and undif- 
folved ; and from thence concluded it to be the remains of one of 
thefe, having been fwallowed whole by fonie bird, and the indigeftis 
ble parts brought up in the condition he found it.” 
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