BRITISH BIRDS. 
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TAME GOOSE. 
[Anas Anfer^ Lin . — UOye domejllque. Buff.) 
To defcribe the varied plumage and the econo- 
my of this well-known valuable domeftic fowl, may 
feem to many a needlefs talk ; but to others, un- 
acquainted with rural affairs, it may be interell- 
ing.* Their predominant colours are v/hite and 
grey, with lhades of alh, blue, and brown : fome 
of them are yellowilh, others dullvy, and many 
are found to differ very little in appearance from 
the wild kind laft defcribed — the original flock 
whence, in early times, they were all derived. The 
only permanent mark, which all the grey ones flill 
* A certain town lady wondered how a Goofe could fuckle 
nine Goflings. 
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