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Oie-fauvage, Buf. ix, p. 30. t, 2,— PL Enl. 985. 

 Uses Araki^ Fojjk. Faun, Arab, p, 3. N°, 6. 

 Oca Sylvatica, Zintian, Uov. p, 104. t. IJ.f.Ql. 

 Wild Goofe, Jlbin, L t. 90 — Will, (JngL) p. 35S 

 Grey-lag Goofe, Lath. Gen. Syn. vi.p, 459 . 31. 



The wild, or grey-lag Goofe is the undomefticated Hate of the 

 tame or common Goofe of our poultry yards : a fpecies that inhabits 

 the fens of England, and is fuppofed to remain with us during the 

 whole year. It is at leall well known that great numbers breed in 

 the fens of Cambridge and Lincolnihire, where they remain throughout 

 the fummer, the feafon when ali the birds that migrate northward 

 are found in higher latitudes. 



Thefe birds are tolerably prolific, producing feven or eight young 

 at a brood ; numbers are caught during the winter feafon in the decoys, 

 many are killed for the fupply of the markets, and others put among 

 the tame Geefe where they are eafily rendered tame, and become part 

 of the donieftic flock. In a wild ftate they affociate in flocks, and in 

 iheir aerial flights are obferved to go forward in a fl:raight line, or 

 more frequently in a cuneated group or wedge, one point foremoH; 

 the flock, whether in a ftraight line or wedge, being preceded by a 

 leader. 



The wild Goofe is an inhabitant of various parts of the world, but 

 appears in other countries to be more of the migratory kind than with 

 us: and is fometimes met with in flocks of three or four hundred. It 

 occurs in Iceland, and on the continent from Lapland to the Cape of 



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