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j^RlTisH BIRBg. 313 
The Brent and the Bernacle were formerly, by 
ibme ornithologifts, looked upon as being of the 
fame fpecies ; later obfervers, however, have de^ 
cided differently, and they are now claffed as dif- 
tind kinds. The foregoing figure was drawn from 
one fliot at Axwell-Park, near Newcaftle upon 
Tyne. There was a fluffed fpecimen in the Wy- 
cliffe Mufeum, which flightly varied in the mark-^ 
ings of the plumage; 
