ASTOR Sal Gy gos te 
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 5 
for if one be killed, the other will not ily aways 
until it has been frequently fhot at. 
There is a kind of Goofe on Bering’s Iffand. 
_ 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 grafs. 
The Brent Goofe is another kind: ae comes in 
_ the winter on the Englith coaft. In Holland and 
 Treland, they are fometimes taken in 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 — 
‘corn 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 relieved 
from them, until the north wind, with which they 
| came, ceafed to blows" ’and then they all went 
Pee Fawaye:: 
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