PLATE CCXXXIL 



Le Cravaiit. Biif. ix. p. 87.~P/. Enl. 342. 



Brent Goose, Brand Goose. Brit. ZooL ii. JV®. 270.— 



Jlbin. /, t. g3.—JVill. (Angl.) p. 360. 



Lath, Gen. Sfjn. vi. p. 467. 27. 



Length, about twenty-one inches: the prevailing colour of the 

 head, neck, and upper part black in the male, in the female brownifli, 

 and in the younger birds, the collar of white fpots more or lefs con- 

 fpicuous, and fometimes wholly wanting. The lower part of the 

 breaft, fcapular and wing coverts alli colour, clouded with a darker 

 fliade: taildulky: legs black. 



Thefe birds inhabit the north of Europe and America, where they 

 frequent the iilands, and along the coaiis, but are never obferved 

 to fly inland : towards winter they proceed fouihward. They vilit the 

 Scottifli ifles in great numbers : at Shetland are known by the name of 

 HoRRA Geefe, from being found in the Sound of Horra. In the 

 winter lime they occafionally occur in fome plenty about the fens and 

 marflies of Lincohilliire, where they are brought to the London mar- 

 kets. The flefh is conlidered palatable, unlefs when it partakes of a 

 iiO^y tafte, which happens when the birds have fubfifted for fome time 

 upon the finny inhabitants of the water: at other times its ordinary 

 food confifts of plants of various kiiids, berries, and even grafs : 

 worms, and finall teftaceous asiimals which occur in the marlhes. 



In the defcription of the Bernacle Goofe, Anas Erythropus (Plate 

 CCXIV. of the prefent work,) we were led to notice the confufion 



that 



