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77 )e Red-Breasted .Goosand e-'R, 
T his Bird is of a middle Size, between a Duck and Goofe : I find one of them 
figured infmall hy Robert Gobi net , Painter to Lewis the 14th of France, which he 
calls Merghanfer Cyrrhatus, in a Set of Prints by him publilhed. It differs fi*om our 
Goofander defer ibed by Willoughby, p. 335. in that it hath a red Brcaft. Mr. Albin, in 
hisHifiiory of Birds, z, p, 90. has figured a Bird which feems to me to be taken 
from the American Goofander, though his Defeription is lamely tranferibed from WiL 
loughby, only with the Addition of a red Bread:, which the Englijh Goofa 72 der hath-not> 
My Defeription is as follows : 
The Bill is near three Inches and a Q^rter long from the Tip to the Angles of the 
Mouth, ffraight and narrow, or compreffed fideways, contrary to thofe of Ducks 5 the up- 
per Part hooked at the End ; both upper and under toothed their whole Lengths ; the 
upper Part Red, clouded with a Dufky-Colour 5 the lower Part of a brighter Red : The 
whole Head is Black, which refied:s a fhining green Glofs 3 the Feathers behind the 
Head are loofe, and longer than the other Feathers ; the Neck for fome Space is White, 
yet juft behind there is a black Line which goes from the Head to the Back ; the lower 
Part of the Neck, and the Bread:, is of a brownifh Orange-colour, with black Spots 
along the Shafts.of the Feathers : On each Side, at the bottom of the Neck, or begin- 
ning of the Bread:, is a remarkable Spot, compofed of white Feathers, bordered with 
Black : The Back is fird: Black 5 the hind Part and Rump of an Afh-colour, 
finely painted with tranfverfe Lines of Dufky : The Tail is of a very dirty Brown j 
from the Shoulders proceed white Feathers on each Side, which fall between the Back 
and Wings : The Qmlls are Black for the firffc ten 5 the three next have their outer 
Webs Black, and their inner White; the fix following are White, except their Bot- 
toms ; the next four are White, with their outer Webs finely edged with Black almoffc 
to their Tips ; the three innermod: next the Back are wholly Black ; the Coverts next 
above the Qmlls are fird: Black over the black or greater Quills, the red: have black 
Bottoms and white Tips, and thefe cover the Qmlls of the fame Colour; above thefe 
there is a Part of the leffer Coverts of the Wing White ; yet the whole Wing, when 
clofed, is encompaded with a Border- of dufi^y or blackidi Featliers, except the very 
Ridge about the Joint, which is White ; the Covert Feathers within Side of the Wings- 
are alfo White ; the Belly, Thighs, Sides, and Coverts under the Tail, are White, 
clouded a little with Cream Colour ; the Sides under the Wings are variegated with fine 
tranfverfe Lines of a Dulky Colour ; the Legs and Feet are much like thofe of Ducks ;. 
the fmall Toe behind, and the inner Sides of the inner Toes on each Foot, have lateral 
Fins, or Webs ; both Legs and Feet are of a Red-colour, pretty bright ; the Claws are 
Black. 
This Bird was brought from Newfoundland, where it was taken at Sea on the Fidiing; 
Banks, as I am informed by my obliging Friend, George Holms, Efq; who prefentedme 
with this Bird well preferved. I believe that no Defeription hath been hitherto given, 
of this Bird, nor any perfec^I; Figure, except Roberts's, which exprefies the white Spots* 
on the Sides of the Neck ; which Albin hath not either figured or deferibed in his. 
Mr. Willoughby, on opening the Stomach of the European Goofander, found it to feed 
on Fifii. 
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