Mr. RAY’j Itineraries. 191 
of \h.tFryth. By the Way we view-, 
ed Fontallon CaJUe., and pafled over 
to the Baffe IJland ; where we faw, 
on the Rocks, innumerable of the 
Soland Geefe (0). The old ones are 
all over white, excepting the Pinion, 
or hard Feathers of their Wings, 
which are Black. The upper Part 
of the Head and Neck, in thofe that 
are old, is of a yellowilh Dun Co- 
lour. They lay but one Egg apiece, 
which is White, and not very large : 
They are very bold, and fit in great 
Multitudes till one comes clofe up to 
them, becaufe they are not wont to 
(0) In Scotia Anatum, feu Ankrum GenuSy 
Bernacles, ex Conchis aut Arhorihus vulgo nafci 
perhihetur.^' Ex Everardi Ottonis No tit id pra- 
cipudrum Europae Rerumpuh, Cap. IV. Sedl. i. 
p. 297. . 
This Name of Bernacles^ as applied to the So- 
land Goofey explains what Cleavelandy in his Satyr* 
upon the Scotch^ means by Feeding on Bernacles. 
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