It difappears in this kingdom very early in the 
fprine:, none being ever feen after the middle of 
March. 
The weight of this fpccics is about five pounds 
and a half, the length two feet four inches, and 
the extent four feet fix inches. The bill, which 
is elevated, is of a pale yellow colour with a white 
nail; the forehead is Vv'hite; the head and neck are 
a cinereous brown, tinged with ferruginous; the 
coverts of the wings, and the primaries and fe- 
condaries, are fomcwhat dari^er than the head and 
neck; the tail is principally aPn-coloured ; the 
breaft and belly are a dirty v/hlte marked with 
great fpots of black; the legs are yellow; and the 
claws are whitifli. 
Goose, Canada. This fpecies is fliaped 
nearly like the common tame Gooie, but is fome- 
what longer: the bill is of a black, or deep lead- 
colour; the eyes are dark; the head and neck are 
black, except a white mark on the under-fide of 
the former, which becomes narrower on the fides, 
and terminates in points about the place of the 
ears ; the back, wings, and part of the breaft and 
belly,, are of a dark brown hue, the edges of 
the feathers inclining to afli-colour; and the pri- 
maries are almoit black. The lower part of the 
back and rump is black; the upper coverts of the 
tail are white; and the tail-reathers are black. 
Tlie fore-part of the breaft, the lower belly, and 
the covert- feathers beneath the tail, are white; 
£,nd the legs and feet are of a dark lead-colour. 
Goose, Elue-Winged. Tnis bird is fmaller 
than the comanon tame Goofe: the bill is two in- 
ches long, and of a red colour; the head, and the 
grcateft part of the neck, are white; the back, 
the breaft, and the lower part of the neck, are a 
dark brown; the tail is of a brownifh afii-colour; 
and the belly and thighs are white. The legs are 
bare of feathers juft above the knees; the three 
foreward toes are v/ebbed; the legs and feet are 
red; and the toes arc black. This fpecies is a na- 
tive of Hudfon's Bay : it continues in that country 
during the breeding ieafon; but, when the feverity 
of winter renders it's fubfiftence precarious, it re- 
tires to more foutherly climes. 
Goose, Muscovy. This fpecies is three feet 
long fxom the tip of the bill to the end of The tail; 
the expanfion of the wings is nearly five feet; anci 
the Vvreight is about fourteen pounds. The bill is 
orange-coloured, with a large tubercle of the fame 
colour on the bafe of the upper jaw ; the pupil of 
the eye is black; the irides are of a golden hue; 
and beneath the bill hangs a large bag. The top 
of the head, and the fides of the neck, are of a 
dark brown hue ; and the upper part of the back 
is of the fam.e colou]-, except that the exterior edges 
of the feathers are fom.ewhat lighter. The wings, 
and the reft of the . body, are white, except a few 
dark feathers on tiie upper part of the tail; the 
legs and feet arc of a fine orange-colour; and the 
claws are black. The female differs from the 
male only in having a fmaller tubercle on the up- 
per mandible. 
GoosE, Gameo, or Spur-Winged. This 
■ fowl bears a ftrong refembiance to the Mufcovy 
duck. The bill is long and reddifh; the head 
and belly are principally white; and the back is of 
a ftiining dark purple colour. On the head there 
is a red carbuncle or wart; but the moft diftin- 
gu; thing mark is a ftrong fpur on the firft joint 
of the wings. 
Goose, Antarctic, White-Winged. This 
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fpecies, which is a native of the Falkland IHes, is 
three feet four inches long; the bill is fmall and 
dufl<:y; the head, the neck, and the whole under- 
fide of the body, are of a fnowy whitencfs; but die 
upper part of the back is barred with black and 
white. The coverts of the wings are white; the 
fecondaries arc crofi^ed with a broad dufl<y bar, 
and another of white with a green fpeculum ; the 
primaries are dufKy; the middle feathers of the 
tail are white with a glofs of green, the reft being 
white; and the legs are black. 
Goose, Mountain, of Spitzbergen. This 
variety is about the fize of the common Goofe: 
the Gander has bL.ick and white fpotted feathers i 
but the plumage of the Goofe refembles that of the 
partridge. 
Thefe birds are of a gregarious nature: they 
build their nefts in lov/ ifiands with the feathers of 
their own bellies mixed with mofs; and lay five or 
fix eggs of a pale green hue, fomewhat larger than 
thofe of the duck. 
Goose, Mountain, of the Cape of Good 
Hope. This fpecies is larger than any of the 
European kinds ; and the plumage of the wings, 
and the top of the head, are of a very beautiful 
fhining green colour. 
The Water -Goofe of the fame country refem- 
bles the common Goofe in it's colours, except that 
it has a brownifh firipe mixed with green on the 
back. The ficfli of this and the preceding fpecies 
is efteemecl excellent. 
GOOSE, MAGELLANIC. A name given 
by Clufius to a bird of the diver kind. It is a ma- 
rine fovv^l, it grows to the fize of the largeft- Goofe, 
and is ufually very fat. The back is black; the 
belly is white; and the neck, which is fi-iort and 
thick, is encircled with a ring of white feathers. 
The fein is thick and tough, like that of the hog; 
and it has only two coriaceous fans, inftead of 
wings, hanging from it's fides, like two arms, co- 
vered with a few feathers, partly black, and partly 
vdiite. Thefe members, though they cannot afford 
the animal proteftion by flight, are neverthelcfs 
very beneficial in fwimming; and indeed this bird 
lives wholly in the water, except during the fea- 
fon of incubation. 
GOOSEBERRY-WORM. An infect fre- 
c|uently found among Goofcberry-bufhes, ufually 
llippoied to be a caterpillar, but differing effen- 
tially from that genus of animals, being one of the 
faufie chenilles of the French. It has a round 
head, and twenty-two legs; and, finally, becomes 
a four-winged fly. The worm is at firft of a 
greenifli colour, with fome yellow variegations, 
and feverai black tubercles; but, on the laft: 
change of it's flcin, it becomes whitifli or cream- 
coloured, and lofes it's tubercles. 
GOR-COCK. A bird of the gallinaceous 
kind, called by fome the lagopus altera; and, by 
the Bricifn, the moor-cock, or red-game. It is of 
the fhape of the partridge, but confiderably larger; 
the beak is black and fliort; and there is a remark- 
able bare fpace over the eyes, of a fine bright red 
colour, furrounded, in the male, by a prominence 
of the lame vivid colour, equally deftitute of fea- 
thers, and fimbriated like a cock's comb. The 
male is alfo diftinguilEed from the female by black 
plumage at the bale of the bill, interfperfed with 
frequent white fpots, and ibme large ones near the 
origin of the under- cliap. The male is alfo of a 
deeper red colour in every part ; and, on the throat 
and breaft, is of a fair red, v/ithout the admixture 
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