The Cock Goojavder. Merganfer Mas.
' Numb. Cl.
T T S Weight is four Pound; its Length, from the Tip of the Bill to*
the End of the Tail, is twenty eight Inches; its Breadth, when the
Wings are extended, forty Inches: the Body long, the Back broad and
fla t; the Head and upper Part of the Neck black, below that white,
as it were a broad Ring ; the Breaft of a beautiful chefnut Colour,, with
tranfverfe Lines of dusky brown; the upper fide of the Neck more ob~
fcure inclining to black; the Belly of a yellowiih white, as is alfo the*
under fide of the T a il;. the Wing hath about twenty fix Quill-Feathers-
moftly black, the next Decad white with a Bar o f black between them
and the fecond, and alfo between the upper covert Feathers,, and the
third Decad with a Border of black round the* Wing; the upper part
of the Back black: the.Tail is compofed of eighteen black Feathers.
The Bill was four Inches and a quarter long, from the Tip to the Angles
ot the Mouth, of a red Colour, hooked, and- the upper and lower
Mandible toothed on both Sides like a Saw; the Tongue and Palate
yellow; the Ears are round, the Noftrils large, the Irides of the Eyes
of a fanguine Colour.
The Legs and Feet red, the back Toe broad with an appendant
Membrane. It hath a huge bony Labyrinth, on the Wind-pipe juft
above the Divarications.
The Stomach is fcarce muiculous, out of which was taken ieveral
fmall Fiih; it hath a Gall-bladder; the blind Guts were three Inches
long, and full of Excrements. The Fleih is not wholefome having a
fifhy unpleafant Tafte.
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