. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. t 6i ] The G U I N E A GOOSE, FOURTH SPECIES, Anas CygnoUes. Linn, and Gmel. AnferGuinecnJis. Briff. Anfer Hi/panicus, Jvve Cygnoides. Marfigl. Danab. The Spanijb Goo/e. Albin. The Savan Goo/e. R:iy and Will, The Chinefe Goo/e. Penn. and Latli. 'T^ H E appellation of Swan-Goo/e, given by '*' WilliighbA^ to this large and beautiful bird, is very apt; bi the Canada Goofe, which is at leaft as beauti il, has an equal right to the name j and beiides, all compounded epithe
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. t 6i ] The G U I N E A GOOSE, FOURTH SPECIES, Anas CygnoUes. Linn, and Gmel. AnferGuinecnJis. Briff. Anfer Hi/panicus, Jvve Cygnoides. Marfigl. Danab. The Spanijb Goo/e. Albin. The Savan Goo/e. R:iy and Will, The Chinefe Goo/e. Penn. and Latli. 'T^ H E appellation of Swan-Goo/e, given by '*' WilliighbA^ to this large and beautiful bird, is very apt; bi the Canada Goofe, which is at leaft as beauti il, has an equal right to the name j and beiides, all compounded epithets ought to be banifhed from natural hiftory. The Guinea Goofe exceeds all other gecCc in ftature; its plumage is a brown gray on the back, and light gray on the fore fide of the body, the whole equally clouded with rufty gray, and with a brown caft on the head and above the neck: it refembles therefore the wild goofe in its co- lours ; but its magnitude, and the prominent tu- bercle at the root of its bill, mark a fmall affinity to the fwan; yet it differs from both by its in- flated throat, which hangs down like a pouch or little dewlap: a very evident charader, which has procured to thefe birds the denomination Jiwo- tieres. M4 -1 . w â \}\ -i\ m-^.\ 1/i mi. â â t'.-iM. 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 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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