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condaries green : quills and tail black. Clayton, in his account
of Falkland’s ljlands, mentions a bird by the name of Mountain
Goofe * : he fays, it is larger than the Mufcovy Buck: the plumage
on the back fpeckled brown and greenilh black, and towards
the neck turns of a gloffy beautiful gold-colour: the breaft
coloured like a Pheafant. This, he obferves, always feeds on
the mountains j is pleafant tailed, and preferable to the other
forts ; but is fcarce. But all Geefe are bell in autumn, when the
cranberries are ripe, on which they feed.
He likewife talks of another, as large as a tame Goofe. The
Gander black and white, fpeckled : the Goofe almoll like the
Mountain Goofe, but darker, and not fo beautiful. Thefe feed
in the rallies, on wild cranberries and grafs; and are good food
in genera], but bell and fattell in February, March, and April.
The firft of thefe two appears to be our prefent-defcribed fpecies;
as to the lall, we cannot determine it for want of a better de-
fcription.
ANTARCTIC G.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
F e m a l e
Lev, Mu/, (the female.)
T H I S is fmaller than a tame Goofe: weight fixteen pounds.
Bill narrow, Ihort, and black: the whole plumage of a dazzling
fnowy whitenefs: on the bend of the wing a blunt knob :
legs yellow.
The female has the bill and legs the fame as in the male, but
the firft of a reddilh flelh-colour: head, neck, and body, black,
crofted with tranfverfe white lines; thofe of the head and neck
* Phil. TranJ. lxvi. p. io i.
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sre very minute, but grow broader as they proceed downwards
middle of the back plain black: wing coverts white: on the
bend of the wing a blunt knob: fpeculum green, edged outwardly
with white : greater quills black: tail white i vent greenilh-
white : legs yellow.
Inhabits Chriftmas Sound, in Terra del Fuego *.
L’Oie des terres Magellaniques, Buf, Oif, ix. p. 68.— PI, Enl, ioo6i
T E N G T H twenty-four inches. Bill fhort and black; the
upper mandible a little bent at the end: head and neck ferruginous
brown : the beginning of the back, the breaft, and all
the under parts to the vent, barred ferruginous and black; near
the vent grey : the lower part of the back and tail dufky: the
wing coverts white : quills dufky; the fecondaries tipped with
white, forming a bar on the wing: legs yellow : claws black.
Inhabits the Straits of Magalhaen.
A fpecimen of this is in the Mufeum of the late Dr. William
Hunter.- It is poflible that the above may prove the Painted
Goofe, mentioned by Commodore Byron, found by him in the
Straits of Magalhaen f ; but as he fays no more on the fubjedl, we
can only fuggeft it.
T E N G T H twenty-eight inches. Bill fmall, under an inch and
a half in length ■, colour black : irides afh-colour : head and
neck white, inclining to afh-colour at the hindhead : the fea-
* Dr. Forfter obferves, that the flefti is fcetid, and not fit to be eaten. See
Foy, i. p. 495. 518.— See alfo Fernet, Voy, ii. p. 13.— Cook's Foy, ii. p. 186.
f HafwkeJw, Voy, i. p. 47.
P l a c e .
8.
MAGELLANIC
G.
D e s c r i p t i o n ,
Place,
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PAINTED Cfc.
D e s c r ip t i -onv
j L a thers