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makes its neft in a hollow tree, and lines it with 
its own feathers. The male and female fit by 
turns: when the young are hatched, the parent 
often carries the young to the water in its bill. 
The male and female are very fond of each other; 
for if one be killed, the other will not fly away, 
until it has been frequently fhot at. 
“There is a kind of Goofe on Bering’s Ifland. 
Bering’s Ifland is between the northern coaft of 
Afia and America. ‘The natives purfue thefe 
Geefe in boats, at the time of moulting, and kill 
them; fometimes they hunt them on land with 
dogs; and fometimes they catch them in pits, 
covered with grais. 
The Brent Goofe is another kind: it comes in 
the winter on the Englifh coaft. In Holland and 
Ireland, they are fometimes taken m nets, which 
are placed acrofs the rivers. In the year 1740, 
they came in fuch large flocks on the coaft of 
Picardy, in France, that they deftroyed all the 
‘orn near the fea, by tearing it up by the roots ; 
and though many of them were knocked down 
and deftroyed, yet the people could not be retieved 
from them, until the north wind, with which they 
came, ceafed to blow, and then they all went 
away. 
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