a flock with boats, and drive them on fhore; where, unable
to raife themfelves from the ground, they ran very fail, but foon
growing tired, and fquatting down to reft, were eafily overtaken,
and knocked on the head. Their flefh was fometimes eaten by
the Jailors, in defeft of that of the Bufiard Cooje, but it was not
much relifhed, being rank and fifhy, and thought more fit for
the hogs, which, after it had been boiled in the copper, ate it
greedily, and fatted well.
L ’ O i e d e s I'fle s M a lo u in e s , Buf. Oif. i x . p . 6 9 .
W h i t e - w i n g e d A n t a r f t i c G o o f e , Brown III. p i . 4 0 .
B u l l a r d G o o f e , Boug. Voy. p . 5 9 .
O u t a r d e , Hiß. de la Lout/, i i . p . 1 1 3 ?
S e a G o o f e , Phil. Tran/. v o l . l x v i . p . 1 0 4 . ( Clayton.)
B r. Mu/.
T E N G T H from thirty-two to forty inches. Bill fcarcely two
inches in length, and black: head, neck, leffer wing covertSj
and under parts of the body, white: the lower part of the neck
behind, and as far as the middle of the back, crofied with numerous
dufky black lines: fides over the thighs the fame: the
greater wing coverts black, tipped with white, forming a bar of
white on the wing j at the bend a blunt knob: fecond quills
part black, part white; prime ones dufky black : fpeculum dark
green : the two middle tail feathers black, the others white : legs
black.
A fecond of thefe, in the Britijh Mufeum, bad almoft the
whole of the neck crofied with dufky lines, and the wings without
any fpeculum, otherwife like the firft: whether a young bird,
or different in fex, is uncertain *.
Inhabits Falkland. IJles, where it is called the Bufiard Goofe. It
ftands pretty high on its legs, which ferve to elevate it above
the tall grafs, and its long neck to obferve any danger: it walks
and flies with great eafe ; and has not that difagreeable.cackling
cry peculiar to the reft of its kind: it generally lays fix eggs:
the flefh is accounted wholefome, nourifhing, and palatable;
and it feldom happened that there was any fcarcity of it.
C I Z E of a large Buck. Bill one inch and a half long, arid
black at the bafe and tip : head, and neck above half way,
white: lower part of the neck, and breaft, deep red brown, beautifully
mottled with black and white: back brown black, mottled
with white: over the thighs the fame : all the under parts marked
as the lower part of the neck : rump and vent ferruginous:
wing coverts white: fecondary quills green ; greater quills and
tail black : legs black.
Inhabits New Zealand: found at Bujky Bay, in April: called
there Pooa dugghee dugghee. From the drawing of Sir Jofeph Banks.
This feems to be the bird mentioned in Forfler’s Voyage ft, which
he fays is the fize of the Eider Buck: plumage blackilh brown,,
elegantly fprinkled with white : rump and vent ferruginous: fe-
* M . Bougainville c a l l s th e female y e l lo w i a n d f a y s , th a t i t s w in g s a r e a d o r n e
d v v i th c h a n g in g c o lo u r s . S e e Poy. p , 59.— P e r h a p s h e m e a n s o u r Magellanic
fp e c ie s . H e o b f e r v e s , t h a t t h i s , th e Black Swan, a n d o th e r Bucks, h a v e in
th i s c l im a t e a v e r y f o f t d o w n u n d e r th e f e a th e r s , o f a g r e y c o l o u r , a n d v e r y
t h i c k .
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