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The Brent Goofe. Brenta.
Numb. xcm.
JTS Length is twenty five Inches from the Tip of the Bill
to the End of the 1 ail; the Breadth when the Wings are
extended three Foot feven Inches and a half; Weight three
Pound ten Ounces; the Head, Neck, and upper Part of the
Breaft are 3 dark brown inclining to black, and in fome of
them about the middle of the Neck, on each Side, is a fmall
Spot or Line of white, which together appear like a Ring
of white; the Back is fomething darker than that of the common
Gooje; the Feathers next to the Tail are white; the
Breaft is of a dark grey, and the lower Belly white; the
Tail, and greater quill Feathers of the Wings black, and the
letter of a dark grey; the Bill is fmall and black, an Inch
and three quarters long, thicker towards the Head, and {lender
towards the Tip; the Eyes hazel coloured, the Noftrik
great, and the Feet black, having the back Toe.
Mr. Ray is of the Opinion that the Brent Gooft differs,
fpecifically from the Barnacle; however, Writers of Hiftory
of Birds confound them, and make thefe Words fynoni-.
mous; he having feen both the Kinds in His Majefiys Tark
at St. James’s, alfo one of the Bodies fluffed of the Brent Goofe
at Mr. Johnfon’s at Brignal in Torkjhire, and that of the
Barnacle in Sir jWilliam Fofier’s Hall at Bamburgh in Northumberland.
See Aldrovandus Ornithologia, Book III. Chap, cn. and
Book XIX. Chap. 37.
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