. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. Place. BRENT GOOSE. â great fubfiftence tj the natives; and the feathers are an artide of commerce. Each family will kill thoufands in a feafon. Thefe they pluck and gut; then fling them in heaps into holes dug for riiat purpofe, and cover them with nothing more than the earth. This freezes, and forms over them an arch, and whenever the femily has occafion to open one of thefe magazines, they find their provifion fweet and good. £r. ZooL ii. No Hrota, Mulkr, N" .. Bernicla. Belgis. Kotgans. Calmariens Prutgas, Faun, Suec.
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. Place. BRENT GOOSE. â great fubfiftence tj the natives; and the feathers are an artide of commerce. Each family will kill thoufands in a feafon. Thefe they pluck and gut; then fling them in heaps into holes dug for riiat purpofe, and cover them with nothing more than the earth. This freezes, and forms over them an arch, and whenever the femily has occafion to open one of thefe magazines, they find their provifion fweet and good. £r. ZooL ii. No Hrota, Mulkr, N" .. Bernicla. Belgis. Kotgans. Calmariens Prutgas, Faun, Suec. N" iis.âLat^am, iii. âLev, Mus. D. With a ihot. black, elcvatccT bill: head, neck, and upper _ paâ ofthe breaft, black: a white fpot marks each fidfcf .he necK near .ts junfton with the head: primaries and tail black- belly, fcapulars, and coverts of the wings, cinereous, clouded with a etceper: coverts of tail and the vent white: legs black Is frequent in Huajcn'. Bay, and ftays there about three Breed m the .Hands, and along the coafts, but never fly inland. Feed about high-water mark. Return towards the fouth in vaft flocks m autumn. Probably Aey winter in «; for Z.«/«, mentions Z T f'*''""''" ">« f^^fc" â¢â¢ During winter, they fwarm in and m Irela«J: in the firft, every eating-houfe is full of them: ,n the laft. they are taken in flight-time, in nets placed acrofs the nvers, are fattened, and reckoned great delicacies Tey appear in fmall flocks in H^ w, in the ,yâ b ' : m ««W, .n flocks of two hundred, and are called Hera G^efef They retire from Europe to breed in the extreme north. A few ⢠Lu'v,/,,, ,47. ^ Reverend Mr. Ln«. after. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London
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