. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . E^i^■ M^.f i^e&i. ?y^. She^ &i>ikMn^ my The Goofander. Merganfer. Jyi.(!!;}^^ Numb. LXXXVII. S^S. ITS Weight is four Pound ; its Length from the Tip of the Bill to theEnd of the Tail twenty eight Inches ; its Breadth when extended for-ty Inches; the Body is long, the Back broad and flat, and the Head andupper part of the Neck is of a dulky yellowifli brown, as is alfo the Creft;the lower back part of the Neck, Pinion of the Wing, Back, and upperSide of its T
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . E^i^■ M^.f i^e&i. ?y^. She^ &i>ikMn^ my The Goofander. Merganfer. Jyi.(!!;}^^ Numb. LXXXVII. S^S. ITS Weight is four Pound ; its Length from the Tip of the Bill to theEnd of the Tail twenty eight Inches ; its Breadth when extended for-ty Inches; the Body is long, the Back broad and flat, and the Head andupper part of the Neck is of a dulky yellowifli brown, as is alfo the Creft;the lower back part of the Neck, Pinion of the Wing, Back, and upperSide of its Tail is of a dark cinereous Colour, inclining to a muddy brown ;the fore part of the Neck, Bread, Belly, and under part of the Tail, areof a faint filvery yellow, or Ifabella Colour; the Tail is made up of eighteenFeathers. Each Wing hath about twenty fix prime Feathers, the ten out-ermofl black, and the four next alfo black, but tipt with white; the fivefucceeding white with their Bottoms black, and the remaining fix or {^w^wnext the Body white, with their exterior Edges black; in the fecond Rowof the Wing, thofe incumbent on th
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