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rat-goose Ornith.
[Given by Willughby, app. as a local name.]
A kind of wild-goose, supposed to be the brent-goose.
The statement of Pennant (Zool. II. 453) that ‘the Danish and Norwegian names for this bird are Radgaas and Raatgaas’ is app. erroneous.
a1672Willughby Ornith. (1676) 276 Rat-Goose or Road-Goose. Brenthus fortasse. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Rat-goose, in Zoology, the name of a small species of wild goose, common in some of the northern counties of England. 1768Pennant British Zool. II. 453 The Rat or Roadgoose of Mr. Willoughby agrees in so many respects with this kind [the brent goose], that we suppose it only to be a young bird not come to full feathers. 1824Latham Gen. Hist. Birds X. 261 The Brent Goose is known in some parts of England by the name of Rat or Road Goose. |